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Rachel Maddow goes there: and Calls out the many Trump Concessions to Putin [1]
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Date: 2025-03-01
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In the A-Block of last night show, Rachel Maddow raises some very good questions — some of which have been hiding in plain sight.
Who’s interests has Donald Trump been really serving, since he’s brought his dismantling American Government act to town?
More people should start asking about this … Who does Donald Trump really work for?
[The next Link jumps to that important MSNBC analysis, starting with Donald’s persistence caginess, about personal phone calls he may/may not have made to Vlad.]
'Who's that good for?': Maddow connects the dots on Donald Trump's behavior toward Russia
Rachel Maddow looks at a string of peculiar behavior by Donald Trump and Trump administration policies that don't seem to have the welfare of the United States as their goal, and wonders who those policies are good for if they aren't good for the U.S.
Maddow then takes us through a recent history lesson of the Headlines, that Team Trump has been making. Some of them have swept by in the flood of outrages, with little notice, analysis, or fan-fare.
[I have attempted to recap most of those Headlines here — so we all may be able to see the common themes, that she’s been noticing. And as video title puts it, so we can “connect the dots” between Trump and Russia.]
US Cuts Task Forces On Foreign Influence, Russian Sanctions
Foreign Influence Task Force is a unit dedicated to investigating violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
In a memo sent to staff Wednesday, US Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed she had disbanded the Foreign Influence Task Force, a unit dedicated to investigating violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), requiring such agents to register with US authorities.
[...] Ms Bondi did not elaborate, but figures on the Republican Party's conspiratorial far right have accused the government of abusing FARA to unfairly target political operatives, such as Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's 2016 campaign manager who was indicted in a probe into Russian influence in that year's US election. Also on Wednesday, the day of her swearing-in, Ms Bondi disbanded the Task Force KleptoCapture, an initiative started in 2022 to enforce sanctions on Russia .
“Who's that good for?”
Pam Bondi ends FBI effort to combat foreign influence in U.S. politics
The order also curbs prosecutions of Americans who improperly lobby for foreign nations. President Donald Trump says Republicans were unfairly targeted in the past
In a little-noticed directive on her first day in office, Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered a halt to a years-old federal law enforcement effort to combat secret influence campaigns by China, Russia and other adversaries that try to curry favor and sow chaos in American politics . Buried on the fourth page of one of 14 policy memos Bondi issued Wednesday, the order disbands the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and pares back enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, despite years of warnings by U.S. intelligence agencies that foreign malign influence operations involving disinformation were a growing and dangerous threat .
[...] Last year, Justice Department prosecutors and FBI agents exposed an alleged scheme in which Russia-backed media funneled $10 million to a conservative U.S. media company that hired prominent right-wing influencers .
“Who's that good for?”
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