Daily Take: What Would Trump Be Doing Differently If Putin Were Giving the Orders?

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1:00So why would Trump be doing differently if Putin were giving the orders? In one of the most obscure segments ever, Eradon Fox, so-called news. Yes, excuse me, I've seen segments ever, Eradon Fox, so-called news yesterday morning. Our billionaire treasury secretary said the inflation Americans are suffering from is Ukraine's fault. Because in response to Putin's criminal regime daily murdering Ukrainian civilians of war crime, Zelensky has been blowing up Russia's energy assets. Stupidity, hypocrisy, owned by Putin, or something even more sinister at work here. That's say morning the financial times revealed that for the past three years Russia has been helping Iran build a supersonic cruise missile capable of blowing our ships out of the water. And in Iran, Russia China summit with Iran's president Putin and Xi and Bishek this week, Putin said he'll continue to supply Iran with the necessary goods that can be used

2:00to kill Americans. Eros policy chief told the world that Russia is helping Iran with the satellite intelligence they needed to target and kill 11 or 18 American troops and send hundreds of others to the hospital while destroying billions worth of our military infrastructure in the region. A senior official confirmed a CBS that Moscow was doing this with 13 killed and 380 wounded by Iran official numbers just in the first 40 days. Still Trump invited Russia's finance minister to the G20 meeting that was supposed to focus on punishing countries that are eating Iran. When Secretary of State Marco Rubio was asked about it all, he waived the question off as irrelevant saying that Putin's got his own set of problems. You see the same pattern I am? Before lunch, just yesterday our Treasury Secretary scolded Ukraine for fighting back against naked murder as Russian aggression. Our Secretary of State shrugged his shoulders about Iran and Russia working together to kill our troops. And Trump issued a new threat against our closest state or neighbor in ally Canada.

3:05If Putin had sat down Trump, PagSeth, Besson, Rubio and Stephen Miller in a room and ordered them to hurt and weaken the US, exactly what would they have done differently? Of course it was Trump who gave the orders and created the environment for all this to help Putin and screw America. And his motivation may have been even more disgusting than the simple trees in this Manchurian candidate scenario seems to indicate. Start with the war. Ignoring the Constitution's requirement that only Congress can declare war, Trump has now bombed at least eight countries, the most recent being Iran, where we burned through air defenses that we could have used to defend Europe, including Ukraine from Russia or Taiwan from China. Our Patriot Interceptor inventory has collapsed from 2330 before the war to somewhere between 759 and 827 today, a drop of at least 65%. Our military has expended nearly four-fifths of its thad inventory. It's going to take years to rebuild those stocks, and in the meantime we're badly weakened

4:06on the world stage. While Russia knows that the Patriot is pretty much the only weapon capable of knocking down the ballistic missiles Russia has been throwing at Kiev every night, and Trump has refused to provide any more new ones to Ukraine for over a year and a half. Moscow has kicked their own missile production into high gear to exploit that shortage. Their ballistic missile strikes on Ukraine went from 61 in April to 198 in July, with an even more radical increase across August. The war Trump chose to join against Iran in violation of our laws and constitution, in other words, is directly helping Putin kill children in Ukraine and assists Iran in hitting our troops in the Middle East. Meanwhile a humiliated South Korean president Lee had to go on TV and admit to his country that he was incapable of stopping Trump from pulling thad components in Patriot batteries out of South Korea. At the same time North Korea's brutal dictator Russian Chinese ally and Trump's good friend Kim Jong-un is adding to his nuclear weapon inventory and testing ballistic missiles capable

5:08of incinerating Los Angeles and San Francisco. All that's happening, whiskey Pete Higgs at this hollowing out the Pentagon from the inside and his crusade to get rid of women and black or Hispanic officers. Army's top civilian leader, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, resigned this week after multiple disputes with Pete, who previously fired Army Chief General Randy George. The resulting disaster is that our Army has no Senate confirmed civilian or uniformed leadership in the middle of a shooting war. Moral has collapsed, just like Putin would want, as Pete has most recently blocked another six officers from promotion, forced polygraphs out of those subordinates, and installed white male MAGA-only officers in senior slots. When reporters at Stars and Stripes published since 1861 and started by Abraham Lincoln, he shared right about the hardships sailors are enduring aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, Pete fired the papers editor in publisher, so much for a free and honest press for our troops. There's also in no particular order ordering new carriers back to steam catapults on a

6:13ship under already under construction, making the future drone carrier harder to build, because now the ship won't reach the fleet until 2034. Bombing boats in the Caribbean and what legal scholars across the spectrum call criminal extrajudicial killings. Our national debt hitting 40 trillion because of Reagan's bushes and trumps, tax cuts, on pace to break the World War II record by 2030. Interest on that debt is already exceeding all defense spending, money that instead could have given us health care and free college for the past two generations. Handing roughly a trillion dollars in tax cuts to the top 1% last year while cutting Medicaid by about the same amount. Cutting snaps so hard that more than a million poor American children have lost their food benefits, refusing to raise the minimum wage or make it easier to unionize. Cutting the CDC's parasite surveillance staff from 11 people to 3 in stopping surveillance for cyclospora.

7:13Driving inspections of foreign food facilities to historic lows. Cutting the childhood vaccine schedule from 17 diseases down to 11 while discouraging Americans from getting any vaccinations. Refusing to enforce our anti-trust laws. Firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for publishing a jobs number he didn't like and now we're getting happy talk numbers that must be corrected two months later. Attacking our closest allies and trading partners Mexico and Canada with punitive tariffs. We've holding 1.7 billion from NIH and canceling 2200 grants for medical research and cancer cures while Europe and Canada recruit our scientists. We nearly 150 programs out of the education department to kill it and our kids chances in a better future. Killing voice of America and smiling about it as Russian and Chinese state media moved to fill the vacuum. Weaponizing the DOJ against Trump's personal enemies. Defunding the corporation from public broadcasting PBS and NPR because they told the truth. Threatening the broadcast licenses of networks that offended dear leader.

8:17Following out our cybersecurity agency protecting our infrastructure and elections, SESA. So today's states are freaking out that there's no federal election security plan for the midterms. Pauishing enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Our main defense against foreign money, bribing or otherwise corrupting American officials, including the president. Handing our media to friendly oligarchs. Be regulating the crypto underground that moved 104 billion to sanctioned entities in a single year, most of it Russian, Iranian and North Korean. Pardoning the proud boys, oath keepers and other cop killers and then erasing their seditious conspiracy convictions entirely. Sending massed, unmarked and armed federal agents into American neighborhoods. Deploying armed national guard troops against American cities over the objections of their governors and citizens and in violation of posse comatatus. Installing anti-capitalism and anti-Christianity as terrorism indicators under NSPM7. Destroying faith in our elections. Standing up an FBI and IRS joint effort to harass good government and anti-corruption

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11:25governments like in Russia and China and preached fiscal moderation. In the Palo memo, Judu and Iskie, two Santa's strategy, five corrupt on the take Republicans on the Supreme Court and Trump's ass kissing embrace of Putin. It's pretty much entirely dead. Nothing left but suck ups, bigots and cynical opportunists who figure the best way to win an election is to shut down polling places in Texas. We're now watching a government run by people philosophically and often financially aligned with Putin and other tinpot dictators who view our nation as a resource to be stripped for their own private game. So make sure everybody you know is registered and ready via vote.org and double check your registration if you live in a red state. And then this November, turn out and vote these greedy bastards out of office while voting is still available to us. And if this kind of reporting and analysis, if this is the kind of reporting and analysis you want more of, please subscribe to the Harbin Report and share this with the people

12:25in your life we need to hear it. Getting this kind of information in front of one more voter today matters more right now than almost anything else we can do. He drains our defenses, turns on our friends while Putin gets stronger again and again. Our soldiers are bleeding, he looks away and blazes the free people who dare to fight back. How many gifts can one man give? How many times can we forgive? What would Trump be doing differently? Putin were given the orders, breaking our strength, betraying our friends and pushing us

13:34closer to the border. Putin gets stronger, America pays. Tell me what changes if Putin gives the orders anyway. He cuts our sides, he silences truth, takes food from the poor while the billionaires

15:09turns on our friends while Putin gets stronger again and again. Our soldiers are bleeding, he looks away and blazes the free people who dare to fight back. How many gifts can one man give? How many times can we forgive? What would Trump be doing differently? Putin were given the orders, breaking our strength, betraying our friends and pushing us closer to the border. Putin gets stronger, America pays. Tell me what changes if Putin gives the orders anyway.

16:20He cuts our sides, he silences truth, takes food from the poor while the billionaires turns on our friends while Putin gets stronger again and again. Our soldiers are bleeding, he looks away and blazes the free people who dare to fight back. Tell me what changes if Putin gives the orders anyway.

17:41How many times can we forgive? This is an America first, when America comes last. If we don't stop it now, we may not get our country back.