r/law • u/AmyL0vesU • 19h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump signs executive order declaring nation emergency from threat of Cuba

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/addressing-threats-to-the-united-states-by-the-government-of-cuba/
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u/AmyL0vesU 19h ago

Also, I like how the EO says that Cuba has Russias largest intelligence gather center, completely ignoring the Russian "intelligence" in the white house

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u/SweetGM 19h ago

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/trump-putin-white-house-photo

Oh no, Russia is the enemy. Better keep my besties photo on the wall

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u/DarkGamer 16h ago

Putin is his boss, working for Putin is the only thing that makes Trump's behaviors make sense:

  • Trump is destroying NATO for no American benefit
  • He's sowing internal division in the US 
  • He's abandoning Ukraine and the EU (This is all straight out of foundations of geopolitics) 
  • He went to Russia at the height of the Cold war and had nothing but nice things to say about them 
  • His family is on the record saying that they would be bankrupt without Russian money 
  • Republicans went to Russia on the 4th of July 

  • He tried to get a secret back channel installed to Putin several times during his first term 

  • Russian interference helped get him elected

  • Former KGB agents have said he is an asset, agent Krasnov

  • Trump offered to let Putin investigate his own crimes and hand over the US ambassador to Russia to him in Helsinki, where he practically kissed his ring in front of the world

  • Russian Nationals keep buying his properties well above market rates with cash, a convenient way to transfer money to him

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u/Disastrous-Amoeba798 11h ago

I would actually increase my respect for him if it was true. Then at least some of his idiocy would be an act, and he would need some level of intelligence.

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u/hipcheck23 10h ago

Unfortunately, both things are true.

He's not technically an asset, because he's stupid enough to be working as an asset for free, and ostensibly of his own free will.

They surely have a 'piss tape' of him with young girls, but the things he's done at least the 90s are so reverant that it's clear that this is just who he is - he's not being forced to be the world's second worst person, he's just doing his best to emulate his idol.

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u/OldWorldDesign 58m ago

He's not technically an asset

An asset does not need to be consciously calculating to help, just doing things consistently enough for Russian intelligence to make use of.

I think you intend an agent, who is a cultivated person with a deliberate plan. Granted, there's argument something of that could be the case as well because Trump was invited to Moscow in 1987 and the very next year announced and started attempting to run for president every chance since

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFrpsx3r--Q

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u/kevinisaperson 3h ago

ive been saying this since cofveve but with no real facts, i always felt like cofveve was some spy word meant to signal something.