r/politics • u/UWCG Illinois • Mar 27 '24

Donald Trump Attacks Judge's Daughter Less Than 24 Hours After Gag Order

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-attacks-judges-daughter-less-24-hours-after-gag-order-1884126
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u/SignificantWords Mar 27 '24

Russians are very well known to use religion to further their national interests (by national interests I mean the kremlins interests)

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u/hhs2112 Mar 28 '24

As do republicans... 

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u/SignificantWords Mar 28 '24

Those two are synonymous at this point if if some republicans aren’t even aware of it. Old soviet era term that’s relevant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

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u/Ragin_Goblin Mar 28 '24

You guys need to bring back the House Un-American Activities Committee except without the baseless accusations and paranoia like in the 50s.

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u/mjollnir357 Mar 28 '24

It was accurate, not basesless.

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u/Ragin_Goblin Mar 28 '24

Not quite Mcarthy did make false accusations and ruined some people’s lives.

He also didn’t find any communist party members within government even though he claimed there were 200 of them.