‘“Wow, she hates him more than I even imagined. They never look at each other. They never touch each other. I guess he didn’t pay her enough for the night.”…’ (Patrick Penrose via TVovermind)
‘Trump’s ego, Rob Dannenberg argues, is a vulnerability that Putin knows how to exploit —and Trump, the CIA veteran fears, is “incredibly naïve” where the Russian president is concerned.
Danneberg told the iPaper, “Putin looks at Trump and sees a weak guy, vain, with huge ego…. He’s being manipulated in the way that a good case officer like Putin would manipulate this guy. He’s not monogamous, he’s greedy, he’s fascinated by gold — all these are things that, if I were a case officer, I would be leveraging to get this guy to do what I want him to do. When that happens to align with Trump’s ambition to get a Nobel Peace Prize, so much the easier, right? You’re pushing on an open door.”…’ (Alex Henderson via Alternet.org)
