Kulyk legally entered the U.S. in late 2023 along with his wife, 38, and daughter, who’s now 5. The family was sponsored by U.S. citizens as part of the Uniting 4 Ukraine program, a humanitarian program set up in April 2022 to allow Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s war to live and work in the U.S. on “parole.”

Once the initial two-year parole period expires, entrants can file for re-parole to remain in the country longer. That’s exactly what Kulyk says he did. His wife and daughter’s applications were approved. But his remained pending.

He said he was putting groceries in his car on Jan. 1 when he was approached by three ICE agents.

“I explained to the ICE officers that the war was killing people, that my wife had a disability, that it was violence, terrorism which we had escaped from but one of them began to laugh,” Kulyk told The Daily Beast. “I asked why he was laughing and I was told that he was pro-Russian, wanted Russia to win the war.”

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    Trumps goons are pro Russia? That surprises no one.

    I bet Putin has video of Trump banging a guy … thus explaining his pro Russia stance.

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      American conservatism has an ideological bromance with Russia.

      • violent suppression of LGBT
      • systemic racism
      • patriarchal values, domestic violence
      • subservience to (state controlled) church
      • nationalist chauvinism
      • wars of plunder
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      Seems more likely they’re business partners in a criminal empire that includes child sex-trafficking, likely using DONT’s “modeling” agencies to move or entrap victims

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      I bet Putin has video of Trump banging a guy

      This is such a bizarre take, given that we have mountains of compromat released through the Epstein files, plus all his sex scandals dating back to the 1970s. None of them indicate that

      a) He’s sexually attracted to men

      or

      b) Revealing any amount of his habitual pedophilia of women affects how he governs

      Trump isn’t hard to control. Anyone and everyone with two shillings to rub together has been able to bribe him. But liberals need to believe he’s a closeted homosexual for some reason.

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        Check this guy out. He draws the line with Trump being gay. I mean he could be a rapist, a pedophile, and guilty of countless crimes of moral turpitude but he better not be GAY

        I am pretty sure his first wife admitted he was GAY. He even had a boyfriend when he was in boarding school, so GAY. Not that there is anything wrong with being GAY and the fact that Trump loves men.

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        Did you miss the weird “blowing Bubba” comments in the files?

        Because I didnt.

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          The subtlety of context in this case was missed by anyone who believed that comment was literal.

          1. The comment was in email by Epstein’s brother, who hated tRump.

          2. He was aware that Clinton and Epstein were acquaintances (plausible) or it was a reference to the name of Gislain’s horse (more likely).

          3. He likely knew, or it had been alluded to, of Epstein (or someone) having damning evidence of tRump improprieties of sexually explicit, and potentially embarrassing, blackmail material.

          Reading that email, with the context, made it sound much less like a literal, factual statement and more an insulting joke about the proclivities of a serial liar and suspected/known sexual deviant. Learning of the horse’s name, as well, afforded further credence to it being an insult about tRump and the horse, than about tRump and Bill Clinton.

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            Bubba was Bill Clinton’s nickname, and also the name of Ghislaine Maxwell’s horse. You pick which would be easier to co troll him with.

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        It’s horrifying to say, but while Trump boasts he could shoot someone on the street and still be popular, it only takes one passing transwoman to pull that rug out from under him. You think he’s chromosome-testing every trafficked woman on his private jets?

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          You think he’s chromosome-testing every trafficked woman on his private jets?

          I don’t think it matters in any meaningful way. You’re pointing to court gossip like it affects national policy.

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            Well I’m not, I’m not the person you were responding to.

            But your absolute confidence that it hasn’t happened is somewhat undermined as I’d bet that being provided witg dozens if not hundreds of random, suffering women and raping them without a second thought increases the chances of having had sex with a transwoman, not decreases it.