2016 - Russia helps Trump get elected with an internet trolling farm and fake Facebook accounts.
2016 - Trump says NATO is obsolete.
2016 - Trump hires campaign manager Paul Manafort, who previously worked for Putin's puppet governor of Ukraine.
2018 - During a NATO meeting, John Bolton, National Security Advisor under Trump, fears that Trump came close to announcing he was going to pull the US out of NATO.
2018 - Trump says NATO is as bad as NAFTA.
2019 - Trump privately tells his advisers he want to pull the US out of NATO. Word gets out. Both Republicans and Democrats in both the House and the Senate start legislation to stop Trump from leaving NATO.
2019 - Trump abandons our allies, the Syrian Kurds. Russian troops move into one of our former military bases in Syria. Syria, a Russian ally, regains some of its territory.
2019 - Trump's Defense Secretary, Jim Mattis, resigns in protest of Trump's decision to abandon the Syrian Kurds.
2019 - Trump withholds military assistance to Ukraine to pressure Ukraine to publicly announce an investigation of the Bidens. Ukraine is fighting Russian-backed rebels.
2020 - Russia again uses fake internet posters and Facebook accounts to help Trump win reelection.
2020 - Trump loses the election, ending the threat that he will pull the US out of NATO.
2022 - Russia, which fears Ukraine may now still join a NATO that still has the US in it because Trump is gone, invades Ukraine.
I was a Jan. 6 juror. What I learned surprised me. Trump’s pardons of virtually all of the Jan. 6 rioters left me dejected. Am I safe? When the jury summons for federal criminal court arrived in my mailbox in November 2023, I knew I had to answer it. And not just because I had been deferring and deferring and now I was all out of deferments. I had to answer this one because in my gut I knew it wasn’t going to be just any old criminal case. I remember saying to my partner, “I bet you anything it’s a January 6 case.” Make sense of the latest news and debates with our daily newsletter At that point, it had been more than two years since a violent mob attacked the U.S. Capitol in the city that has been my home for 16 years. But criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection were still making their way through the federal court in D.C. at a pretty steady clip. At the time my summons arrived, roughly 1,200 Jan. 6 cases had already been adjudicated, and there were still many mor...
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