impeachment: Third time's a (c)harm as Russian state-TV jokes about Trump fleeing
By annieli on December 16, 2019
Last updated on December 17, 2019
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Of course nothing happened when Sergey Lavrov visited Trump even if they don’t agree on whether they discussed election interference.
Sometimes a picture doesn’t have to be worth a thousand words. Just a few will do. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov returned home from his visit with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office last week, Russian state media was gloating over the spectacle. TV channel Rossiya 1 aired a segmententitled“Puppet Master and ‘Agent’—How to Understand Lavrov’s Meeting With Trump.”
Vesti Nedeli, a Sunday news show on the same network,pointed outthat it was Trump, personally, who asked Lavrov to pose standing near as Trump sat at his desk. It’s almost the literal image of a power behind the throne.
Russian state television still views the impending impeachment as a bump in the road that won’t lead to Trump’s removal from office. But President Vladimir Putin’s propaganda brigadesenjoywatching the heightened divisions in the United States, and how it hurts relations between the U.S. and Ukraine.
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The host, Vladimir Soloviev, smugly asked: “Should we get another apartment in Rostov ready?” Soloviev’s allusion was to the situation of Viktor Yanukovych, former president of Ukraine, who was forced to flee to Russia in 2014 and settled in the city of Rostov-on-Don.
Such parallels between Yanukovych and Trump are being drawn not only because of their common association with Paul Manafort, adviser to the first, campaign chairman for the second, but also because Russian experts and politicians consider both of them to be openly pro-Kremlin.
Last month, 47% of Americans supported impeachment and 46% opposed it.
This month, after rounds of public hearings, 48% of the country opposes impeachment, while 47% supports it, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. https://t.co/8sf9owgsPlpic.twitter.com/uyFcV57oz7
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