{"id":2367166,"date":"2024-11-11T09:34:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T14:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/polish-prime-minister-pushed-trump-russia-collusion-hoax\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T09:35:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T14:35:41","slug":"polish-prime-minister-pushed-trump-russia-collusion-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/polish-prime-minister-pushed-trump-russia-collusion-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish Prime Minister Pushed Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolish-prime-minister-pushed-trump-russia-collusion-hoax%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2367166&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Polish Prime Minister Donald\u2062 Tusk is experiencing a credibility crisis after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/weiss-letter-undermines-facade-of-independent-hunter-biden-investigation\/\" title=\"Weiss Letter exposes lack of independence in Hunter Biden investigation.\">denied making statements<\/a> \u2063about President-elect Donald Trump being a Russian agent, despite video evidence \u200cfrom March 2023 showing him claiming that &#8220;Trump \u200band his \u200ddependence on Russian services is no\u200d longer \u200cup for debate.&#8221; Tusk, during that public meeting,\u200b referenced investigations suggesting Trump&#8217;s long-term connections with\u2064 Russian intelligence. He \u200bhas since faced scrutiny for\u200d this position, \u200bespecially after the opposition \u200cLaw and Justice Party (PiS) challenged his credibility and cited his\u2064 prior remarks alongside his recent denials. Tusk&#8217;s relations\u2064 with Trump have shifted, as he has recently congratulated the president-elect,\u2063 contrasting sharply with his earlier anti-Trump\u200c rhetoric. The PiS party \u2063members, who previously enjoyed a\u200b good relationship \u200dwith Trump, seized upon Tusk&#8217;s denial to question his reliability going forward. \u2064Tusk&#8217;s\u200d tenure has included numerous critical \u2064comments about Trump and the U.S.\u2063 foreign policy under\u2064 his leadership. The article highlights the polarized political landscape \u2064in Poland regarding relations with the U.S. and Russian influence.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is <a href=\"https:\/\/tvrepublika.pl\/Polska\/Gwozdz-do-trumny-Tuska-Wyciagneli-mu-skandaliczne-slowa-o-Trumpie\/174579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">facing a credibility crisis<\/a> after denying he ever attacked President-elect Donald Trump as a Russian agent, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/7uXdKdLm4uU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">videotaped evidence<\/a> of him saying just that in March 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Trump and his dependence on Russian services is no longer up for debate today. This is not my assumption, it is the result of an investigation by American services,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/mbackelov_last-years-video-with-the-pm-donald-tusk-activity-7260557589178994688-CRzD\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tusk said<\/a> at a public meeting in Bytom, Poland, on March 17, 2023. He <a href=\"https:\/\/niezalezna.pl\/polska\/tusk-cytowal-amerykanskie-sluzby-zarzucajac-trumpowi-zwiazki-z-rosja-to-wierutna-bzdura\/530621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">further claimed<\/a> that an investigation showed Trump had been &ldquo;recruited by Russian intelligence services 30 years ago&rdquo; and lambasted his opposing party as being too friendly with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The outlandish allegation that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election was an elaborate hoax invented and pushed by the Hillary Clinton campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-military-officials-unite-in-opposition-to-biden-admins-iran-deal\/\" title=\"Israeli Military Officials Unite in Opposition to Biden Admin\u2019s Iran Deal\">intelligence community officials<\/a>, and compliant media. The claim was shown to be false with the April 2019 release of the so-called Mueller Report. A <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">special counsel office fully staffed<\/a> with Democrat operatives was unable to find a single American who had colluded with Russia in the lead-up to the 2016 election, much less Trump himself.  People who opposed Trump&rsquo;s foreign policy crafted and spread the lie to harm Trump&rsquo;s reputation and make it difficult for him to govern.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiadomosci.wp.pl\/przypomnieli-slowa-tuska-o-trumpie-zaprzecza-ze-to-powiedzial-7090079793887968a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tygodnik Solidarno&#347;&#263;<\/a>&rdquo; journalist Monika Rutke asked Tusk at a press conference whether he still believed Trump was a Russian agent. Tusk sidestepped the question and attacked Minister Mariusz B&#322;aszczak from the Law and Justice Party (PiS) for his suggestion that Tusk&rsquo;s government was too hostile to Trump for an effective partnership. Again, Rutke asked Tusk whether he still believed Trump was a Russian agent.<\/p>\n<p>Tusk denied that he had done so, claiming falsely that he had &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiadomosci.onet.pl\/kraj\/niewygodne-slowa-donalda-tuska-o-donaldzie-trumpie-teraz-zaprzecza\/wzywqq4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">never made such suggestions<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Tusk is known for strongly disagreeing with an American foreign policy focused on the country&rsquo;s interests more than European interests, having earlier this year <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/donaldtusk\/status\/1755487973997457772\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chastised Republican senators<\/a> for not giving even more money to the Ukraine war effort than the $175 billion they already appropriated. Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, suggested that Tusk should be <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JDVance\/status\/1755620682908508481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">far more grateful<\/a> for the American taxpayer dollars funding his country&rsquo;s security.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition Law and Justice Party (PiS) pounced on Tusk&rsquo;s lie, immediately questioning Tusk&rsquo;s credibility and ability to work with the incoming Trump administration. Law and Justice controlled the Polish parliament during the first Trump presidency and its leaders got along well with Trump. After Trump&rsquo;s election on Tuesday, the members of the party <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Andruszkiewicz1\/status\/1854091221938937951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chanted Trump&rsquo;s name<\/a> on the floor of parliament, with one member donning a Trump hat.<\/p>\n<p>One opposition party member <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MorawieckiM\/status\/1854471630644273620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted a graphic<\/a> with Tusk&rsquo;s 2023 words next to his 2024 denial. &ldquo;Unbelievable! This is a level of hypocrisy that is unattainable for ordinary people. Brazenly, in your face,&rdquo; wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/radekfogiel\/status\/1854471254876590384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rados&#322;aw Fogiel<\/a>, another PiS member, posting video of both statements.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is how Tusk lies!!&rdquo; wrote MP <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sjkaleta\/status\/1854435524485718216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sebastian Kaleta<\/a>. &ldquo;Today, the journalist pressed Tusk to respond to his words about Trump&rsquo;s alleged Russian agentship, and he lied as if nothing had happened, saying that he had never said such words. A disgusting guy. See for yourself.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Tusk publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/donaldtusk\/status\/1854099489596071949\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">congratulated<\/a> Trump, a far cry from some of his earlier rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>Tusk is known for his strenuous anti-Trump statements. While head of the European Council in 2018,&nbsp;Tusk&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-summit-bulgaria-sofia-donald-tusk-slams-capricious-donald-trump-iran-deal-rebuke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;with friends like Trump, who needs enemies, in response to the decision to exit the Iran nuclear deal. In 2019, he posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/donaldtuskEPP\/status\/1202532538033590272?t=C4e-x56w9Ie6Ua8R3P6CTw&amp;s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">provocative picture<\/a> on social media of him using his fingers to &ldquo;shoot&rdquo; Trump. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/europe-leaders-congratulated-donald-trump-what-they-said-before-david-lammy-emmanuel-macron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Politico Europe<\/a> claims he &ldquo;delivered a rhetorical beatdown of Trump at the United Nations in 2019&rdquo; after Trump endorsed patriotism. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-tusk-mocks-trump-over-covid-19-coronavirus-tweet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mocked Trump<\/a> for his claim that people not live in abject fear of the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Tusk claimed Trump had &ldquo;little chance of winning the next election&rdquo; and, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonreporter.news\/editorial\/watch-polands-prime-minister-flips-on-trump-i-have-never-made-such-suggestions-that-trump-is-a-russian-asset\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington Reporter<\/a>, that &ldquo;our independence, and certainly the peace of Europe, and therefore our lives, would be at great risk if the U.S. shifted back to Trump&rsquo;s approach.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Tusk&rsquo;s foreign minister is Rados&#322;aw Sikorski, the husband of noted Russia collusion hoaxer Anne Applebaum. Applebaum, who has pushed a variety of hoaxes from her perch at the Democrat propaganda outlet The Atlantic, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2019\/04\/20\/anne-applebaum-trump-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bitterly clung to the Russia collusion conspiracy theory<\/a>, despite its falsehood.<\/p>\n<p>Sikorski caused some controversy for his tweet thanking the United States for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/energy-environment\/news\/former-ministers-nord-stream-sabotage-tweet-causes-uproar-in-poland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline<\/a>. The Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ukraine-russia-nord-stream-pipelines-biden-sabotage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">denied participation<\/a> in the bombing, though <a href=\"https:\/\/budsoffshoreenergy.com\/2024\/09\/30\/more-nord-stream-intrigue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">some reports<\/a> dispute that. Sikorski has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamPereira_\/status\/1854540482770043351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted regularly<\/a> on social media against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This raises serious questions about your credibility as a reliable partner for our crucial ally, whom you attack with unsupported allegations,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Michal_Moskal\/status\/1854485338393027041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said Law and Justice member Michal Moskal<\/a>, urging Tusk to clearly disavow his previous remarks and similar from Sikorski. &ldquo;Failing to do so would represent a damaging misstep in Polish-American relations, with severe implications for our national security and diplomatic credibility.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Polish media reports that Trump has recently been made aware of the comments from Tusk and Sikorski and his wife. &ldquo;Donald Trump is aware of what Rados&#322;aw Sikorski&rsquo;s wife wrote about him, what Polish politicians, including Donald Tusk, said about him,&rdquo; reported one <a href=\"https:\/\/wpolityce.pl\/polityka\/712323-ujawniamy-trump-dostal-materialy-z-wypowiedziami-tuska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Polish media outlet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Mollie Ziegler Hemingway is the Editor-in-Chief of The Federalist. She is Senior Journalism Fellow at Hillsdale College and a Fox News contributor. She is the co-author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Justice-Trial-Kavanaugh-Confirmation-Supreme\/dp\/1621579832\">Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court<\/a><\/em>. She is the author of &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rigged-Media-Democrats-Seized-Elections\/dp\/168451259X\/\">Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections.<\/a><\/em>&#8221; Reach her at <b><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/mailto:mzhemingway@thefederalist.com\">mzhemingway@thefederalist.com<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish PM Tusk faces credibility issues after denying past claims<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":2367168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/13564771513_0ffa54beb9_k.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34247,32402,44773,32603,44774],"class_list":["post-2367166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-fake-news","tag-international-relations","tag-polish-prime-minister","tag-political-news","tag-trump-russia-collusion"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/13564771513_0ffa54beb9_k.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367170,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367166\/revisions\/2367170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}