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lindysalsagal

(20,792 posts) Mon Jan 14, 2019, 07:53 AM Jan 2019

WAPO OP ed; 18 reasons why trump could be a russian asset

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/here-are-18-reasons-why-trump-could-be-a-russian-asset/2019/01/13/45b1b250-174f-11e9-88fe-f9f77a3bcb6c_story.html?utm_term=.2002d28b6388

— Trump has a long financial history with Russia. As summarized by Jonathan Chait in an invaluable New York magazine article: “From 2003 to 2017, people from the former USSR made 86 all-cash purchases — a red flag of potential money laundering — of Trump properties, totaling $109 million. In 2010, the private-wealth division of Deutsche Bank also loaned him hundreds of millions of dollars during the same period it was laundering billions in Russian money. ‘Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,’ said Donald Jr. in 2008. ‘We don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia,’ boasted Eric Trump in 2014.” According to Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s guilty plea of lying to Congress, Trump was even pursuing his dream of building a Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign with the help of a Vladimir Putin aide. These are the kind of financial entanglements that intelligence services such as the FSB typically use to ensnare foreigners, and they could leave Trump vulnerable to blackmail.

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WAPO OP ed; 18 reasons why trump could be a russian asset (Original Post) lindysalsagal Jan 2019 OP

He fed russians top secret information on duforsure Jan 2019 #1

maybe the best part ... Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #2

Trumpy is not going to like this article. riversedge Jan 2019 #3

duforsure

(11,885 posts)

1. He fed russians top secret information on

Reply to lindysalsagal (Original post)

Mon Jan 14, 2019, 08:02 AM

Jan 2019

Someone who had infiltrated ISIS, and told the russians in the oval office , helping them and ISIS by revealing where the undercover agent was. Clearly aiding and abetting the enemy russia and ISIS. trumps a russian agent helping putin , and Hillary was right all along, he's putins puppet. Things are almost ready to explode against trump and the gop , and putin soon. Will putin cyber attack us for trump soon , so he can blame others to start a war, and for distraction? trump isn't making America great, he's working to make putin great again , and hurting this country intentionally.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,552 posts)

2. maybe the best part ...

Reply to lindysalsagal (Original post)

Mon Jan 14, 2019, 10:15 AM

Jan 2019

What Boot says after listing the 18 reasons may be the best part:

Now that we’ve listed 18 reasons Trump could be a Russian asset, let’s look at the exculpatory evidence.?.?.

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I can’t think of anything that would exonerate Trump aside from the difficulty of grasping what once would have seemed unimaginable: that a president of the United States could actually have been compromised by a hostile foreign power.

riversedge

(70,445 posts)

3. Trumpy is not going to like this article.

Reply to lindysalsagal (Original post)

Mon Jan 14, 2019, 10:26 AM

Jan 2019

do I care. ???

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