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Though Dear Leader was more than willing to levy an unfounded claim that the past administration was somehow spying on his activities via microwaves, he seemed to take no expectation with the idea that a cunning Russian agent posing as a journalist, unescorted and given exclusive access to the Oval Office, might have been capable of smuggling in a surveillance device.
Also, please do discount the fact that the photo-op was on the occasion of the Russian foreign minister and ambassador meeting Dear Leader for the first time—just fresh from firing the FBI director spearheading the investigation into Russian interference in the US presidential election and the same ambassador figures large in that network of associations. Stultifyingly, Dear Leader’s next engagement was to appear with the reanimated toad and noted war criminal Henry Kissinger whose superior’s modus operandi was compared to Dear Leader’s recent behaviour by a lot of people in many different forums.