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Russian TV host reveals what the FBI found at Mar-a-Lago -- a Putin portrait and matryoshka dolls [1]

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Date: 2022-08-10

Russian TV news host Evgeny Popov had a pretty good idea of what the FBI found when they searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of 60 Minutes, Popov said the agents found a couple of matryoshka dolls, a portrait of Vladimir Putin, a Young Pioneer scarf, two icons, a parachute and a chained bear with a balalaika.

I presume he was joking. And once again thanks to Daily Beast columnist Julia Davis, who watches Putin’s propaganda pals so we don’t have to, for providing this gem.

Popov, who is also a deputy in Russia’s State Duma (parliament), has repeatedly referred to the former guy as Russia’s “friend” and “protege.”

Davis wrote that on Tuesday’s broadcast, Popov said:

“As soon as Donald Trump complained that Biden was the worst president in the history of the United States, which is fast becoming a third world country, there was a knock on Donald’s door: ‘Knock-knock, this is the FBI!’ More than one hundred agents stormed in and searched Trump’s Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago.” “Dozens of agents ransacked every office, went through every box, and took every document that was of interest to them. It is thought that the FBI was interested in the Top Secret documents supposedly taken by the ex-president from the White House ... Biden, with his dictatorial tendencies, repressions, and persecution of dissidents, is turning America into Ukraine. He already did that, since the opposition is being persecuted by authorities,”

Russian TV propagandists have matched Fox News hosts in expressing outrage over the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search, With straight faces, they complained that the “FBI raid” was symbolic of the rampant persecution of political dissidents in the U.S. by that tyrannical despot President Joe Biden, whom they had repeatedly referred to as “sleepy Joe.”

But Putin’s propagandists are unmatched when it comes to outright hypocrisy. After all, Russia’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny nearly died from being poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent. And is now serving a nearly 12-year prison sentence under harsh conditions after being convicted on trumped-up charges.

And Russians face hefty fines or stiff prison sentences for expressing any opposition to the war in Ukraine. They can’t even call it a “war,” but have to use the Kremlin’s terminology of a “special military operation” without risking punishment.

x Meanwhile in Russia: some highlights from various state TV programs, bemoaning the search of Trump's estate and hoping for civil war.



Some military experts worry Trump might be accused of sending classified documents to Moscow and charged with treason. https://t.co/sz85D8kJUR pic.twitter.com/r8mZ9vnCOV — Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) August 10, 2022

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