Russia expert: Putin has something on Trump and will use it on him now that he is no good to him

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Appearing on AM Joy an expert on Russian policy said that Russian President Vladimir Putin gambled on an erratic Donald Trump becoming president and will soon turn on him because he’s is no longer useful.

According to Nina Khrushcheva, who teaches at the New School and is the director of the Russia Project at the World Policy Institute, the relationship between Putin and President Trump hasn’t so much deteriorated as much as Putin is “pragmatically” moving on.

“Where do you see this relationship going?” Reid asked. “It feels like it’s deteriorating or perhaps destined to deteriorate. What do you make of it?”

“Well, I actually never thought that it’s going to go anywhere,” Khrushcheva parried, “In fact, I actually wrote last summer that Putin is a pragmatic politician. He cannot possibly not think that the disaster of Donald Trump is going to work wonders for him. He could have hoped, he thought he could manipulate it, he used it for as long as he could have. But now the reality, as I said, has kicked in.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/russian-expert-putin-has-something-on-trump-and-will-use-it-on-him-now-that-he-is-no-good-to-him/?comments=disqus

(Nina Khrushceva is Nikita Khrushchev's granddaughter I'm told.)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Of course. At some point Putin will decide Trump is too much of a liability

if he hasn't already. The Russian hacking and attempts to influence the election were likely done in the hope that Trump would be able to lift the sanctions, but since Trump's and his campaign's connections have started to become public and the subject of investigations, obviously that will no longer be possible. Putin no longer has any reason to do him any favors.

Stay tuned.

[Sunlei]

2. Republican party didn't order that dossier on trumps background, history in Russia for nothing.

Pence is ready to step in at a moments notice.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. I wish he'd get on with it.

[Blanks]

4. It's bound to come to an end...

I just hope Pence (and whoever comes after Pence) keeps the Trump kids in the inner circle at the White House because they are just so smart.