Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • How We Are Different
  • Debbie Young
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Your Survival Guy
  • The Great Reset
  • The Swiss Way
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • COVID-19
  • Dick Young
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool

Hillary, Obama, Trump—the Russian Connections

July 25, 2018 By Debbie Young

Debbie Young

In October 2016, President Obama emphatically dismissed the notion that Russia could change the way people voted in an election:

There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America’s elections, there’s no evidence that that has happened in the past or that it will happen this time.

Apparently, Mr. Obama’s optimism was based on his certainty that Hillary Clinton would win the election and that a defeated and humiliated Donald Trump should not post facto “whine” about losing, writes Victor Davis Hanson in NRO.

Hillary and the Russians

  • Hillary Clinton was instrumental in persuading the U.S. government to green-light sales of American uranium to Putin-connected companies.
  • It is surely not a coincidence that Russian interests paid Bill Clinton a $500,000 honorariumfor a single speaking gig in Moscow, shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, and that pro-Putin Russians gave multimillion-dollar donations to the Clinton Foundation.
  • Such largesse was never repeated after 2016, when the market value of the Clinton brand crashed after 16 years of more-than-market returns.
  • Democratic arch-fund-raiser and lobbyist Tony Podesta also received generous fees from Russians, who presumed that his brother (top Clinton aide John Podesta) would soon be part of the new Clinton administration.

Obama and the Russians

The Obama administration showed indifference to the absorption of Crimea and eastern Ukraine. There was also not much anger over prior Russian cyberattacks on the United States.

  • Obama refused to arm the Ukrainians and showed indifference to the absorption of Crime and eastern Ukraine.
  • Obama’s green-energy, anti-fracking policies played right into Russian oil interests.
  • The Obama administration’s defense cuts contributed to NATO laxity.
  • Secretary of State John Kerry invited Putin into the Middle East after a 40-year hiatus. It proved a pathetic effort to get the Obama administration off the hook of enforcing the very ultimatum — the now infamous red line — that it had issued to the genocidal Assad government, and it might well have convinced Putin that annexing former Soviet territory would likewise have few consequences.

Trump and the Russians

  • Trump has beefed up sanctions, expelled Russians, and had Russian mercenary thugs killed in Syria.
  • Trump sent threats to Putin not to overreach in Syria.
  • Trump has armed the Ukrainians, expanded U.S. oil production, increased defense spending, jawboned NATO to toughen up, and blasted German-Russian appeasement and the dangerous developing German dependency on Russian fossil fuels.

The reality is “the Obama-administration officials sought to warp a U.S. election by abusing FISA courts, weaponizing the intelligence agencies, colluding with the Clinton campaign in peddling bought opposition research, working with unethical toady journalists, and planting informants in a presidential campaign.”

As Mr. Hanson notes, “according to the protocols of contemporary progressive hysteria and an unhinged media, all of the above, if done by the Trump administration, would have been redefined as impeachment-worthy collusion — or far worse.

Read more here.

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for the Richardcyoung.com free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • Obama on Hillary and the FBI Investigation
  • Obama/Hillary Fail in Libya
  • Obama Claus
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Debbie Young
Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
Latest posts by Debbie Young (see all)
  • In Chicago, Education Connects the Dots - March 30, 2023
  • A Threat to Our Constitutional System - March 29, 2023
  • The Forgotten America - March 28, 2023

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • The Masters of the Universe Align Themselves with CHINA Using YOUR Money?
  • How Can You Maximize Natural Immunity to Viruses?
  • Vermont Abandoned, Dairy Farm Economy Devastated
  • Rich Grandchild, Poor Grandchild
  • U.S. Survival AR-7
  • Government Should Be Small, Laws Unobtrusive, and Men Left Alone
  • DEATH SPIRAL: Crime Soars in Democrats’ #DEFUNDTHEPOLICE Cities
  • A Look at the Future of Main Street America
  • Hillsdale College: What College Is Meant to Be
  • What’s John Kerry Doing in Mexico?

Our Most Popular Posts

  • Freefalling at Stanford
  • Is Vanguard Voting Against Your Political Beliefs?
  • The Forgotten America
  • Does Anyone Still Think Ron Paul Was Wrong?
  • Rand Paul Surprises Moderna CEO with Inside Information about Myocarditis Risk
  • Biden's Fake Democracy Summit: Hungary and Turkey Snubbed
  • “You Just Have to Be Willing to Move Defensively”
  • Your Survival Guy’s #1 Habit of Fairly Successful People
  • Dick & Debbie: Over Three Decades in Key West
  • What’s John Kerry Doing in Mexico?

Disclosure

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • BEWARE: The Road to Digital Currencies
  • Another Habit of Highly Successful and Fairly Wealthy People
  • The Greatest Threats to the American Economy
  • Your Survival Guy’s #1 Habit of Fairly Successful People
  • New Regulation Coming for CDS Market?
  • “You Just Have to Be Willing to Move Defensively”
  • Americans Are Fleeing Bank Deposits
  • If You’re a Highly Effective Person, We Should Talk
  • Trouble Now Brewing at Deutsche Bank
  • Is Vanguard Voting Against Your Political Beliefs?

RSS Yoursurvivalguy.com

  • BEWARE: The Road to Digital Currencies
  • Bad Guys Have Guns, Targets Must be Hardened
  • Another Habit of Highly Successful and Fairly Wealthy People
  • The Greatest Threats to the American Economy
  • Is America about to Deploy Star Wars-like X-Wings on the Battlefield?
  • Your Survival Guy’s #1 Habit of Fairly Successful People
  • Western Real Estate: From Zoom to Bust
  • “You Just Have to Be Willing to Move Defensively”
  • Did SVB Fail Because of Climate Change?
  • If You’re a Highly Effective Person, We Should Talk

In Chicago, Education Connects the Dots

BEWARE: The Road to Digital Currencies

Sen. Ted Cruz Has a Plan to Stop Biden’s Supreme Court Packing Scheme

Who Paid Indian Hackers to Infiltrate the Rockefeller Family Fund?

BIDEN’S BORDER: Massive Caravan of Illegal Immigrants Enters El Paso

Bad Guys Have Guns, Targets Must be Hardened

Copyright © 2023 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives