7-5-2020
Kremlin-controlled media continue to flatter the American president they call their “agent.”
But they know he’s in trouble, and the Putin bromance is on ice for now.
Tom Brenner/Reuters
Kremlin-controlled Russian state media set out to tickle U.S. President Trump’s fragile ego amid falling ratings after his blustery appearance at Mount Rushmore on Friday.
Given the frequent allusions on Russian state media to Trump as Moscow’s friend, even Moscow’s “agent” in the White House, maybe the Kremlin would like to see the enormous monument renamed Mount Russia-More.
Putin sent a telegram congratulating U.S. President Donald J. Trump on America’s Independence Day. Interesting move. By avoiding a phone call Putin also avoided any direct pressure to address reports about the Kremlin paying bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers and coalition forces in Afghanistan.
“Russian 60 Minutes’ Evgeny Popov lovingly described Tucker Carlson as ‘practically our co-host.’'
While Trump was likely given a “Do not congratulate” input from his national security advisors, the old Chekist Putin can most certainly read between the lines.
After all, Trump notoriously
took Putin’s side in Helsinki,
denied Russia’s proven interference in the U.S. elections,
abandoned U.S. bases in Syria for the benefit of the Russians,
toyed publicly and divisively with the idea of re-admitting Russia to the G8,
and threatened to remove nearly a third of U.S. troops from Germany—
a midsummer night’s dream for Putin.
Trump-centric Fox News and the GOP follow the lead of America’s most pro-Russian president, churning out talking points that increasingly benefit the Kremlin.
Russian state media have aired so many of Tucker Carlson’s comments that the host of Russia’s state television program 60 Minutes Evgeny Popov lovingly described Carlson as “practically our co-host.”
Likewise, instead of concocting its own divisive propaganda, TASS simply quotes Devin Nunes and Mike Pompeo, both of whom sought to find and punish the leakers who exposed the Kremlin’s alleged cash for kills program instead punishing Russia for putting a price on the heads of American soldiers.
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