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Here is some of the evidence suggesting Individual 1 could be a Russian asset:
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 dont rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia, boasted Eric Trump in 2014. According to Trump attorney Michael Cohens 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.
The Russians interfered in the 2016 U.S. election to help elect Trump president.
Trump encouraged the Russians to hack Hillary Clintons emails on July 27, 2016 (Russia, if youre listening), on the very day that Russian intelligence hackers tried to attack Clintons personal and campaign servers.
There were, according to the Moscow Project, 101 contacts between Trumps team and Russia linked operatives, and the Trump team tried to cover up every single one of them. The most infamous of these contacts was the June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower between the Trump campaign high command and a Kremlin emissary promising dirt on Clinton. Donald Trump Jr.s reaction to the offer of Russian assistance? If its what you say I love it especially later in the summer.
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=.0044a481f38c
The very last line of the article reads: If Trump isnt actually a Russian agent, he is doing a pretty good imitation of one.
This is thorough and paints a convincing picture.
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(3,435 posts)...not if and or but--he is not only a racist, corrupt criminal he is also a russian asset and traitor.
He has shown us time and time again that he does not have the best interest of America at heart, that he does not beleive in rule of law; constitution. The great Maya Angelo said, "when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." Imf45!