The United States of Russia

Our political system is in the Kremlin’s hands

Trump collusion. Clinton collusion. In the words of The League’s Rodney Ruxin, “COLLUSION!”

In one corner we have Paul Manafort and Rick Gates who have been indicted, not found guilty, for, “conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy against the U.S., unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading statements surrounding the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), false statements and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.” This indictment is based on documents that allegedly show that the two were laundering money from their consulting deals with the Ukraine. Their indictment has nothing to do with their time in the Trump campaign, but the media is definitely hinting at that possibility.

Then there is George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents. Investigations have found that he was actively trying to tie the Trump Campaign and the Kremlin together, though many members of Trump’s staff, and the president himself have claimed that Papadopoulos had very little impact or contribution to the actual campaign.

Then we have the Russian paid for social media ads, which emphasized a split in American politics, pitted Bernie Sanders supporters against Clinton and often portrayed Clinton as the devil. These ads were allowed by Facebook without any acknowledgement that the payments came in rubles.

So Russia definitely was pulling for Trump in the election, but did Trump actually get involved in the discussion? That is up to Robert Mueller and the special counsel to figure out. However, Clinton has been especially vocal in the past months of how Putin and the Kremlin kept her out of the White House, even though her hands aren’t clean either.

The biggest finding recently-a dossier. A dossier that was bought by the Clinton campaign after the election to smear Trump and weaken his Presidency. Who was behind this dossier? Christopher Steele. The money came from both Clinton’s campaign funds, which a recent tell-all has said were taken from state election committees, and from the DNC, who is currently $10 million in debt, but I digress. The money for the dossier went to Fusion GPS, which then went to Christopher Steele, which then was paid to unknown Kremlin spies and operatives.

So who aided in the election of Trump? Russia. Who divided the country by putting every political side against each other? Russia. Who took advantage of an angry Hillary Clinton to further their agenda? Russia. Who is using the liberal leaning media and funnelling stories to destroy Trump’s presidency? Russia. Who is systematically weakening and destroying the American government and population? Russia. Who is the genius leader that has taken America’s violent two party political system and corrupt officials and used them to tear down his biggest opponent? President Vladimir Putin.

By Dean of Students Office/Publications

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