{"id":6149,"date":"2018-08-04T12:38:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T19:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6149"},"modified":"2018-08-04T12:38:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T19:38:53","slug":"putins-bitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6149","title":{"rendered":"Putin&#8217;s Bitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re still flabbergasted by Donald Trump&#8217;s performance at his summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki a few weeks ago. We&#8217;ve never seen such a shameful display by a United States president. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/shameful-treasonous-disgrace-lawmakers-pundits-react-trump-s-joint-news-n891736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Many others, including Republicans agree with us<\/a>. Dubya came close when he got all romantic about looking into Putin&#8217;s eyes and seeing into his soul,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/06\/18\/world\/cordial-rivals-how-bush-and-putin-became-friends.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8221;I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 But Trump&#8217;s actions boggle the mind.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, Trump insists on gaslighting Americans by stating that Russia is really sorry that Trump is President &#8230;er&#8230; CEO\/Dictator and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/wait-now-trump-fears-russia-will-meddle-election-help-democrats-n894091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that they might influence the upcoming election&#8230; for Democrats<\/a>.\u00a0 But all indications are that because Trump and the Republicans are in power, Russia and Putin are relevant on the world stage again and they couldn&#8217;t be happier. <strong>Or like Trump said in Helsinki, &#8220;Putin is strong and powerful.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And all pictures and videos seem to back this up.\u00a0 There are very few pictures from the Helsinki summit where the normally glum Putin, isn&#8217;t smiling, like this pic from after Trump&#8217;s secret meeting with Putin. Oh yeah&#8230; Trump really looks like he&#8217;s laying down the law to Putin. Russia must really have something good on Trump&#8230; just sayin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6152\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6152\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumpputinsbitch.jpg\" alt=\"America's CEO\/Dictator, Donald Trump, boldly lays down the law with Russian president, Vladimir Putin.\" width=\"500\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumpputinsbitch.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumpputinsbitch-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">America&#8217;s CEO\/Dictator, Donald Trump, boldly lays down the law with Russian president, Vladimir Putin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re still flabbergasted by Donald Trump&#8217;s performance at his summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki a few weeks ago. We&#8217;ve never seen such a shameful display by a United States president. Many others, including Republicans agree with us. Dubya came close when he got all romantic about looking into Putin&#8217;s eyes and seeing into his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Putin&#8217;s Bitch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,61,60,8,68,85,3,198],"tags":[1575,50,74,73,22,107,507,52,147,1538,9,1773,199,21,98,596,235,296,1257,19,871,47,48,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6156,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions\/6156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}