'Time for us to take advantage': Russian TV hosts debate how Trump woes can help the Kremlin
Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Prescott Valley Event Center. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr)
June 12, 2023
In the wake of a federal indictment charging former President Donald Trump with 37 counts related to his handling of classified materials, Kremlin mouthpieces on Russian state-owned media are theorizing how to undermine Joe Biden as the 2024 election approaches, The Daily Beast reported.
In one segment cited by The Beast, Russian state TV host Evgeny Popov said, "The investigation against Trump has to do with the disappearance of secret documents from the White House, related to the development of new nuclear weapons by the United States... Obviously, if there were any important documents, they’ve been studying them in Moscow for a while. What’s the point of searching?”
Dmitry Drobnitsky, who is described as an "Americanologist," declared in one segment that "none of the leading presidential candidates will make it to the 2024 elections as free men."
"It’s time for us to take advantage of this," Drobnitsky said. "The new cornerstone of our foreign policy should be to constantly demonstrate the toxicity of the American world, the Pax Americana that previously suited everyone.”
"Let all the flowers bloom, as long as our adversaries are allergic to them... We should do whatever we can to shove them out of our Eurasia," he said.
Drobnitsky also said that the pro-Russian talking points disseminated by Robert F Kennedy Jr.'s participation in the campaign will be a good thing for Moscow.
"Let’s release a story where we’ll write that Biden was personally getting $10 million for every day of the war in Ukraine. Who can prove it isn’t so? There are so many criminal cases out there!” he said.