ValerianSteel:
Trump told his supporters to their face that they were vicious,mean,and violent during the campaign.Why didn't he condemn that during the campaign when he had great opportunity to but he egged them on with chants of 'lock her up' and 'knock the crap out of them'.He really does tell it as it is right

Also,

Lucasbalo:
You are talking about a low life who only get his essence in life by forming a big man anonymously on a faceless forum. I told the fool Three weeks ago that I will be in Nigeria to spend Xmas with my parents and I would love for him to call me a bastard to my face and see if he wouldn't smell himself. Who calls someone a bastard and hide behind a cheap Made in China phone ?. He's a faceless punk who throws a pebble and hide his hands.

Twenty years before Vladimir Putin began his ingenious campaign to influence the U.S. presidential election, his predecessor as Russia’s president stood on a dark street near the White House. In his underpants. Looking for a pizza.

It was September 1994, and Boris Yeltsin was in Washington for a state visit with his new friend, President Bill Clinton. The Soviet Union had collapsed just three years earlier, and a relationship was blossoming between the U.S. and Russia, one that held the promise of burying decades of hostility. Russia’s abrupt transition from communist dictatorship was chaotic, but a fragile democratic process and nascent capitalism were taking hold. U.S. officials entertained visions of a Western-friendly Russia as a partner in a stable and secure Europe. To that end, Clinton and Yeltsin had built an alliance on the shared goal of preventing a revanchist security state from taking power in Moscow and returning the U.S. and Russia to a Cold War state of hostility. During one early visit to Moscow, Clinton told a young audience to “choose hope over fear" and "find a new definition of Russia’s greatness."

Rarely had an American and a Russian leader been so chummy. Clinton and Yeltsin were buddies, two lovable rascals with big appetites. But something else was different as well: For the first time in decades, Russia was the obvious number two in the relationship. Stripped of its Iron Curtain puppet states, its economy in tatters and its military breaking down, Russia was a shrinking, messy place. And its president was becoming an embarrassment. A presumed alcoholic, Yeltsin would often lose his balance in public, sending aides scurrying to prop him back up. In one slurred telephone conversation with Clinton, the Russian proposed that the men hold a secret meeting on a submarine.

But nothing could top that fall night in 1994. While staying at Blair House—the guest residence for visiting foreign dignitaries across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House—Yeltsin slipped past his security, stumbled down the stairs and stepped onto the street. “Pizza! Pizza!” he blurted at the Secret Service agents who intercepted him. (There are two versions of the story: In one that Clinton himself told to a biographer, Yeltsin is on the street; in another, he's stopped before he makes it out the door.)

But for one man in Russia, it symbolized a profound humiliation. Vladimir Putin was then a minor public official, serving as a deputy city functionary in St. Petersburg after ending his career as a KGB agent, withdrawn from East Germany after its communist government fell. The notion that the Soviet state in which he’d been raised and trained, whose demise he once called “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,” had become a client state with a leader who was a source of Western amusement was stinging. It was a sting he never forgot, and when Putin met with Russian troops shortly after he took power on the first day of the new millennium, January 1, 2000, he told them their mission included “restoring Russia’s honor and dignity.”

But it wasn’t until December 2011 that Putin came to see Hillary Clinton as a direct threat to his power. That was when unusually large protests appeared in the frigid streets of Moscow. Though sparked by allegedly rigged parliamentary elections, the demonstrations morphed into something more, with shouts of “Putin is a thief!” and “Russia without Putin.” Putin had seen nothing like it since first coming to power more than a decade earlier. For an autocrat and former spy who U.S. officials call both paranoid and rightfully conscious that a sudden loss of power could land him in jail or worse, it was a dire threat.

And in Putin’s view, Clinton piled on. She offered supportive words about the protests, expressing “concerns” about the parliamentary elections and saying the U.S. “supports the rights and aspirations of the Russian people.” To Western ears, it was boilerplate pro-democracy talk, not exactly a call to arms against the government in Moscow. But Putin treated it that way. He fumed that Clinton had “sent a signal” to the protesters and accused the U.S. of backing election observers who, he said, had a subversive agenda. “We need to safeguard ourselves from this interference in our internal affairs and defend our sovereignty,” Putin said.

Some U.S. officials believed that Putin—like so many autocrats who finger foreigner provocateurs for domestic unrest—had found a handy political villain in Clinton. But Clinton herself came to believe he was out for vengeance, as she told donors at a closed-door event on December 15. And other Russia experts believe Putin was genuinely infuriated.

“He was incensed,” said Dmitri Trenin, director of the Moscow Center at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “The State Department became more sinister in the eyes of the Russian media than the CIA was during the Cold War.”

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Putin won that election, and his return to the presidency in 2012—along with a political crackdown that began around the same time—troubled U.S. officials. But the Obama administration was slow to detect Putin’s new assertiveness. After Mitt Romney warned during the 2012 presidential campaign that Russia was America’s “top geopolitical foe,” Barack Obama quipped in one debate with Romney that “[t]he 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.”

But Romney was onto something. Putin hadn't given up his fight. He shifted his attention from domestic political intrigue to exercising Russian power abroad—and restoring Russia to what he considers its rightful place on the global stage.

After another pro-Western uprising in Ukraine, Putin seized the country’s Crimean peninsula. He supported a pro-Russian separatist movement in eastern Ukraine, where combat has left nearly 10,000 people dead. And his unexpected military intervention in Syria, Moscow’s longtime chief ally in the Middle East, boxed in Obama; it has recently left him looking impotent as Russian forces join up with Syrian’s regime in a vicious campaign to drive rebel forces from Aleppo.

In a March 2014 address shortly after claiming Crimea, Putin made clear that he was re-establishing Russia’s place in the global order. He said the world had to “accept the obvious fact: Russia is an independent, active participant in international affairs. Like other countries, it has its own national interests that need to be taken into account and respected.” Translation: Russia would no longer be seated at the kids’ table while Washington dictated world events.

Increasingly, it has become clear that another foreign nation where Russia has exercised its new influence is the United States itself, where Hillary Clinton’s campaign was beset for months by a steady flow of stolen emails—hacked, according to U.S. intelligence officials, by agents of the Kremlin, likely at Putin’s personal direction.

It’s impossible to measure the precise effect of the leaked emails on Clinton’s candidacy. But her defeat was unquestionably a win for Putin, who will soon greet an American president leading what could be the most Russia-friendly administration in U.S. history. Putin sent Donald Trump his congratulations within an hour of Clinton’s concession. And when word of Trump’s election reached the Russian Duma, spontaneous applause broke out in the room.

ValerianSteel:
Trump told his supporters to their face that they were vicious,mean,and violent during the campaign.Why didn't he condemn that during the campaign when he had great opportunity to but he egged them on with chants of 'lock her up' and 'knock the crap out of them'.He really does tell it as it is right

Also,

obixcel:
hmm, bad news for Hillary, FBI to continue with the investigation of the Clinton Foundation. Orders have been issued to go forward with the investigation for alleged corruption.

Lucasbalo:
Keep hallucinating. America is not a dictatorship where you think your god Trump will do whatever he pleases without being challenged. There is something called Rule of law but I wouldn't expect you to know that. America is not a Banana Republic.

Lucasbalo:
I am hoping he is good but I think you are right. The deed is done and if he fails, Americans will kick him out in 2020.

CFCman:
Electoral College voting in progress.

obixcel:
Done deal, Trump wins

Timbuktuo:


LucasBaloney, right now

Lucasbalo:
Tell me how that takes you out of your misery in life?. I am a doyen of politics and no matter who the Presidente is, hard working Americans will be successful.

Timbuktuo:


You're obviously the one with a miserable existence. It is obvious in your half-brained comments. With your fake 'Toyin Avenue' address in your Ikeja country home. You're a dummy of politics not a doyen of anything. Bloody ignoramus.

Come sef, when are you coming for your lessons in common sense?

Lucasbalo:
Mental dwarf pretending to be a Mental giant. Yellow eyed , Kwashiokor ravaged brain of yours is affecting your rationality. Keep using your meager resources on something that's not Germaine to your life. No matter who the president is, I will be very successful and that's not bragging. Show your monkified face. Poverty incarnate. Don't worry, your 35.000 Naira is loading. Betnaija protege.

Kill em all Uncle Ruckus...KILL EM ALL.

NickleTheory:



Kill em all Uncle Ruckus...KILL EM ALL.

Lucasbalo:
Where have you been my Junebug. Some lady hiding you in the B/R in Maryland.

I traveled to Nigeria and have been busy with Finals, are you ready for your new president

NickleTheory:



I traveled to Nigeria and have been busy with Finals, are you ready for your new president

Lucasbalo:
I am in Nigeria right now. Hope you enjoyed your stay in Nigeria. Lol. Ready for Trump to get in on January 20 and we will take it from there.

Lucasbalo:
Mental dwarf pretending to be a Mental giant. Yellow eyed , Kwashiokor ravaged brain of yours is affecting your rationality. Keep using your meager resources on something that's not Germaine to your life. No matter who the president is, I will be very successful and that's not bragging. Show your monkified face. Poverty incarnate. Don't worry, your 35.000 Naira is loading. Betnaija protege.

NickleTheory:



Everything was bad but at least the women were throwing their pussies at me so that's a positive, there was jealousy and envy everywhere(Almost like the NLs act on this section).

NickleTheory:



Everything was bad but at least the women were throwing their pussies at me so that's a positive, there was jealousy and envy everywhere(Almost like the NLs act on this section).