Former Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said today that 74-year-old President Donald Trump’s presidency was a missed opportunity, after former President Barack Obama drove U.S.-Russian relations to Cold War lows. Commenting about Trump losing the 2020 election, Medvedev called Trump’s time a “period of disappointment,” referring to the failed attempt to rekindle strong U.S.-Russian relations. “The period of the previous administration ‘s work is a period of disappointment,” Medvedev told the Tass Russian government news agency. Medvedev, who’s deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, hoped that when Trump came to office in 2017 U.S.-Russian relation would improve. He watched over his four years in office Trump’s enemies do everything possible to sabotage his attempts at rapprochement with the Russian Federation.
When you consider that Obama ordered a counterintelligence investigation of Trump during the 2016 campaign and lasting through much of his presidency, it’s outrageous that no high ranking official in the Obama administration or at the Department of Justice, FBI, CIA or National Security agency was charged with spying on Trump’s 2016 campaign and presidency. While it’s still possible that Special Counsel John Durham (R-Conn.) continues to investigative 60-year-old former FBI Director James Comey and other involved in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, only one former DOJ official plead guilty to tampering with government documents, former DOJ Atty. Kevin Clinesmith. Trump hoped that former Atty. Gen. Bob Barr and Durham would have returned indictments before the Nov. 3, 2020 election, nothing happened. Trump was accused for much of his presidency of being a Russian asset.
Medvedev recognized the missed opportunity, especially when 62-year-old former National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was accused by 76-year-old former Special Counsel Robert Mueller of lying to federal agents. Obama former Vice President now President Joe Biden set Flynn up at the White House Jan. 24, 2017 in a perjury trap. Flynn was charged with lying to FBI agents about his completely innocent conversations during the transition with 70-year-old former Russian Amb. Sergey Kislyak. “Donald Trump already a former president of the United States, was indeed a friendly person and demonstrated in very possible way his intention to, as he put it, get along with the Russians—but failed,” Medvedev said. Medvedev watched from afar as Trump’s good faith effort to restore a cooperative relationship with Moscow was sabotaged by Democrat and the U.S. press.
So five days after he was confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee as Secretary of State, 58-year-old Tony Blinken starts the bad will all over again. Medvedev recalls well when Obama and Biden ousted 35 Russian diplomats in Washington, D.C. for allegedly meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Trump worked from the day he won office Nov. 8, 2016 to help restore U.S.-Russian relations but was accused by the U.S. government of colluding with the Kremlin. Blinken’s recent tweet demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin release from jail 44-year-old dissident Alex Navalny who’s antagonized the Kremlin. Russia views attempts by the U.S. or European Union to impose democracy on the Russian Federation as meddling in internal affairs. Blinken throws his support to Putin’s biggest critic sours U.S.-Russian relations right from the get-go.
Blinken, and his boss Biden think they’ll have the backing of the EU with any get tough measures against Putin and Kremlin when it comes to the crackdown on Navalny’s pro-Democracy movement. Putin views Navalny as a left-wing agitator who’s broken Russian national security laws deserving a long prison sentence. What’s ironic is that the U.S. House of Representative has charged Trump with “incitement of insurrection,” the exact thing the Kremlin charges Navalny. While the House charges Trump with plotting a coup d’etat, the Kremlin charges Navalny with the same thing, bring the hypocrisy in the U.S. full swing. Whoever broke the law at the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot, it was not orchestrated by Trump but by right wing extremists thinking they were doing Trump’s bidding. Right wing radicals have much in common with Black Lives Matter, Antifa and other leftists groups.
Biden and Blinken are kidding themselves that slamming Putin and Kremlin is the best way forward to improve U.S.-Russian relations. U.S. officials have accused Trump for four years of colluding with the Kremlin, only recently saying that Trump was groomed by the FSB [formerly the KGB] as a Kremlin asset, according to a recent book “American Kompromat” by journalist Craig Unger. Unger quotes former KGB man Yuri Shvets, another pile of left-wing rubbish. Trump’s been an American real estate tycoon and reality TV star for the past 50 years, an iconic American success story. Turning him into a Russian asset is preposterous, just like when Hillary spewed such rubbish back in 2016. One thing’s for sure, Biden and Blinken have set back U.S.-Russian relations and won’t get much help from the EU who imports 40% of its natural gas and 305 of its petroleum from Russia.
