{"id":7223,"date":"2017-04-06T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=7223"},"modified":"2025-03-30T17:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T20:12:33","slug":"499-russian-to-conclusions-donald-trump-and-the-russian-affront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/7223","title":{"rendered":"499 &#8211; Russian to conclusions\u2014Donald Trump and the Russian affront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/499_Obama_and_Putin_168x100.jpg\" alt=\"Obama and Putin\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7224\" \/><audio controls preload=\"none\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20170406-justRIGHT-499-GUEST-SalimMansur-RUSSIANtoCONCLUSIONSaboutTRUMP.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Those falsely attempting to connect <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>&#8216;s electoral victory to <strong>Russian influences<\/strong> in the 2016 American election may well find themselves hoisted on their own petard.<\/p>\n<p>Predicting that it will become bigger than the Watergate scandal, today&#8217;s in-studio guest <strong>Salim Mansur<\/strong> calls the upcoming major American political scandal &#8220;<strong>Obamagate<\/strong>&#8220;.  Whatever the public may eventually come to know it as, there is certainly a clear &#8220;Obamagateway&#8221; straight to Russia &#8211; one whose path Salim traces in the wake of now-known facts and events that have come to light.<\/p>\n<p>To deflect from their own Russian connections, <strong>the Democrats have launched a Russian affront against president Donald Trump<\/strong>, who has had no such history.  The affront consists of the hypocrisy inherent in creating <strong>fake news <\/strong>to hide a truth, while simultaneously insulting American voters in the process.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Says Salim: <strong>&#8220;The argument &#8211; by Obama, the New York Times, the Washington Post &#8211; that there was collusion by the Russians to put Trump into the White House is a terrible insult to over 60 million American people &#8211; as if they are zombies.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As we consider the added probability that the insult itself was intentional, you have to admit: he&#8217;s Just Right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/499-topics\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/topics.gif\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/499-clips-credits\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/clips_and_credits.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Those falsely attempting to connect Donald Trump&#8216;s electoral victory to Russian influences in the 2016 American election may well find themselves hoisted on their own petard. Predicting that it will become bigger than the Watergate scandal, today&#8217;s in-studio guest Salim Mansur calls the upcoming major American political scandal &#8220;Obamagate&#8220;. 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