Here are 18 reasons Trump could be a Russian asset

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Here are 18 reasons Trump could be a Russian asset
By Max Boot
January 13 at 3:24 PM

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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 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.

— The Russians interfered in the 2016 U.S. election to help elect Trump president.

— Trump encouraged the Russians to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails on July 27, 2016 (“Russia, if you’re listening”), on the very day that Russian intelligence hackers tried to attack Clinton’s personal and campaign servers.


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1. I wish they'd stop describing it as Donnie being "compromised" by russia

That implies he once had principles and loyalty to America and was reluctantly turned.

I see no evidence of any principles or loyalty to America or any such reluctance.

[MFM008]

2. only 18?

[Scarsdale]

3. Even with all this evidence

the gop members refuse to say anything against tRump. Why? Are they being blackmailed, too? Imagine a democratic president acting like tRump? The gop would have already filed articles of impeachment. They would have been screaming from the rafters. Since they refuse to do their jobs, we must speak out until they have no choice but to do what they were elected to do. How much has it cost Russia so far to buy the "leaders" of this country?

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5. I'm betting they're collecting money from Russia, too

And the money funneled through the NRA is just the tip of the iceberg.

[empedocles]

4. An MSNBC panelist on Saturday asked, where is the evidence that trump is not

a Russian asset? Period.