We’ve checked out the NBC News website for the full story here, but they might be holding onto it to drop Monday when it will have the most explosive impact throughout the week.
Check out what NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel discovered in Moscow.
Look who theyre painting now at a kremlin-backed youth group we visited in moscow. pic.twitter.com/WaEtKJD4w6
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) December 16, 2016
Whoa.
An artist at moscow patriotic youth group has done many portraits of putin. Now she did this. pic.twitter.com/hMvBKU9scM
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) December 16, 2016
Now we’re beginning to think NBC might have withheld this bombshell until Obama had left for vacation; there’s no way he would have left his command post in D.C. knowing this was going on in Moscow.
But what happened to “they”? Was Trump portraiture a group project directed personally by Vladimir Putin, or was this just one artist? Did Trump blow off his press pool and sneak over to Russia to pose? Wait … the rabbit hole deepens.
to see how moscow feels abt US election, at a kremlin-backed youth group we found a painter who normally does #Putin now has new inspiration pic.twitter.com/OUwK4BdVqR
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) December 16, 2016
So, NBC News visited a Kremlin-backed youth group to find out how Moscow feels about Trump’s election, and a young artist there painted a portrait of Trump for their camera? That’s unequivocal proof … that whoever this artist is, she’s really good. And she’s done portraits of Putin, too? Let that sink in for a moment.
https://twitter.com/holly1950/status/810095510275104769
yeah no insinuation there.
— Russ Wilson (@russnet) December 17, 2016
has she done other world leaders too?
— Justice Will Prevail (@LP083061) December 16, 2016
As far as we can tell from the reporting, only Putin until now.
One artist represents Moscow? I haven't heard of this artist, what is his or her name?
— MC (@ItsMariaCapone) December 17, 2016
Oh, you’ll know her name when the Kremlin commissions her to paint the giant Trump banner they’ll hang in Red Square every Jan. 20.
sample size of one. Totally wrong to project to how Moscow, a city of millions, feels. Miserable reporting.
— Mark Thompson (@Markbuckeye25) December 17, 2016
is this more of your "news" or the ongoing NBC propaganda campaign? #fakenews
— Peter ⚒ Spina (@goldseek) December 17, 2016
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