Trump’s Fury at Dems Goes Nuclear as Crushing New Shutdown Poll Hits
As
Trump’s anger grows amid another poll slide, Democratic strategist
Simon Rosenberg explains why Trump’s deep unpopularity should give you
solace—even if beating him long term will be a brutal slog.
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President Trump’s fury at Democrats over the government shutdown is escalating. First he angrily announced
that he’s “terminated” the big tunnel project connecting New York and
New Jersey, basically saying he’d done this to punish Chuck Schumer, an
extraordinarily deranged act of direct retribution. Then he unleashed a rambling tirade filled with lies about “mentally damaged” Democrats’ shutdown stance. All this comes as a new CNBC poll
finds Trump and the GOP blamed for economic damage over the shutdown by
53-37. This has driven his economic approval down to 42-55, the worst
ever in CNBC polling, with his standing on inflation at an abysmal
34-62. We talked to Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg, author of “The Hopium Chronicles.”
He argues we should focus on the fundamentals: Trump is doing immense
harm to the country, he’s deeply unpopular, and that will matter in the
midterms—though Rosenberg also discusses why beating Trump and
recovering from our authoritarian slide will be a brutal longer-term
slog. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.
So
earlier today, the Daily Beast’s Isabel van Brugen published a
bombshell story about allegations by Kazakh Spy Chief Alnur Mussayev
that the KGB had recruited Donald Trump as a Soviet Asset way back in
1987 under the code name “Krasnov.”
I expected to see this story covered heavily here, but nary a peep, and within hours, it was scrubbed from both the Daily Beast’s site,
as well as various other outlets on the internet. There is no
retraction on the Daily Beast site, or even any acknowledgment that the
story existed, and several republishers have pulled the story as well.
If you go to Google news and search “Trump Krasnov,” you may still
find a couple of sites where the story, either in the van Brugen
version, or under other bylines, is still up, but they are dropping like
flies.
Now I am as against CTs, hoaxes, etc. as anyone, so I will take no
stance as to the truthfulness of the accusations laid out in the van
Brugen and other articles, but I also have to say that the speed at
which this is being memory holed is rather breathtaking. Pressure from
the DOJ, perhaps? If this story has actually been debunked anywhere
rather than simply disappeared, please add a cite in the comments, and I
will be more than happy to update this story to reflect it.
Incidentally, FWIW, van Brugen did publish another story earlier today
that detailed Anthony Scaramucci’s speculation that Trump may be a
Russian asset that is still currently up on the DB site. It will be
interesting to see if that one eventually gets yanked, as well.
The purported FB post by Alnur Mussayev that generated this story:
In 1987, I served in the 6th
Directorate of the USSR KGB in Moscow. The most important direction of
the work of the 6th Administration was the recruitment of businessmen
from capitalist countries.
It was that year that our
administration recruited a 40-year-old businessman from the United
States, Donald Trump under the pseudonym "Krasnov".
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