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Josh Marshall documents a number of financial connections between Donald Trump and Russians connected to Vladimir Putin, including the fact that a large part of the $280 million increase in Trump's debt over the last year has been Russian; American banks won't lend to Trump so he has turned to the Russians. This is a detailed story that raises serious questions about Trump's admiring statements about Putin and cutting support for NATO allies.
Marshall writes: "...If Vladimir Putin were simply the CEO of a major American corporation and there was this much money flowing in Trump's direction, combined with this much solicitousness of Putin's policy agenda, it would set off alarm bells galore. That is not hyperbole or exaggeration. And yet Putin is not the CEO of an American corporation. He's the autocrat who rules a foreign state, with an increasingly hostile posture towards the United States and a substantial stockpile of nuclear weapons. The stakes involved in finding out 'what's going on' as Trump might put it are quite a bit higher.
"There is something between a non-trivial and a substantial amount of circumstantial evidence for a financial relationship between Trump and Putin or a non-tacit alliance between the two men. Even if you draw no adverse conclusions, Trump's financial empire is heavily leveraged and has a deep reliance on capital infusions from oligarchs and other sources of wealth aligned with Putin. That's simply not something that can be waved off or ignored."
Marshall writes: "...If Vladimir Putin were simply the CEO of a major American corporation and there was this much money flowing in Trump's direction, combined with this much solicitousness of Putin's policy agenda, it would set off alarm bells galore. That is not hyperbole or exaggeration. And yet Putin is not the CEO of an American corporation. He's the autocrat who rules a foreign state, with an increasingly hostile posture towards the United States and a substantial stockpile of nuclear weapons. The stakes involved in finding out 'what's going on' as Trump might put it are quite a bit higher.
"There is something between a non-trivial and a substantial amount of circumstantial evidence for a financial relationship between Trump and Putin or a non-tacit alliance between the two men. Even if you draw no adverse conclusions, Trump's financial empire is heavily leveraged and has a deep reliance on capital infusions from oligarchs and other sources of wealth aligned with Putin. That's simply not something that can be waved off or ignored."
Trump & Putin. Yes, It's Really a Thing
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Donald Trump
Election 2016
Russia
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SPC(P) Patrick Westbrook
Did a bit of research, found he takes loans from small businesses now at lower amounts. Maybe in the past he did business with Russia, but only 'foreign' bank I can tell is from Germany. My source is a blog, so I dont know how much stock I can take into it, but it sounds like something Trump would do as far as business. "http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/03/20/trumpwallst0320/"
"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-trumps-financial-ties-to-russia-and-his-unusual-flattery-of-vladimir-putin/2016/06/17/dbdcaac8-31a6-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html"
This is also an interesting article, makes no reference to him owing anything, other than trying to get to build in moscow. I guess I would put it like this, Putin refused to actually meet with Trump on numerous occasions in the 80s and 90s. I only skimmed it and read about 1/3 in dealing with trump/putin.
Putin is extremely smart and I dont think he would allow trump to be able to lend any money, unless there was some proof of him getting something in return. Everything I am finding says nothing happened, so either code for shady, or it is what it is, a failed business attempt. We will see if he gets elected though and what happens.
"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-trumps-financial-ties-to-russia-and-his-unusual-flattery-of-vladimir-putin/2016/06/17/dbdcaac8-31a6-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html"
This is also an interesting article, makes no reference to him owing anything, other than trying to get to build in moscow. I guess I would put it like this, Putin refused to actually meet with Trump on numerous occasions in the 80s and 90s. I only skimmed it and read about 1/3 in dealing with trump/putin.
Putin is extremely smart and I dont think he would allow trump to be able to lend any money, unless there was some proof of him getting something in return. Everything I am finding says nothing happened, so either code for shady, or it is what it is, a failed business attempt. We will see if he gets elected though and what happens.
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Great! Then we have Secretary Clinton's international cash flow through the Clinton Global initiative. I daresay that eight years from now, no matter who wins, the Ulysses S. Grant administration will look honest and transparent.
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Maj John Bell
1stSgt Nelson Kerr - Hyperbole and undisciplined on his part. I don't think he means it but it isn't Presidential.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
Maj John Bell - That is the difference between us I take his statements that he will order murder on the high seas, the intentional targeting of civilians and torturing people becasue they deserve it at face value. You seem to belive he is sane and i believe that he is a megalomaniacal psychopath, who provides evidence of being so on an almost daily basis. He did so toady in a public speech that I quoted above,
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Maj John Bell
1stSgt Nelson Kerr - I put him in the category of 1/3 Playground bully, 1/3 Carnival barker, and 1/3 accidentally correct.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
Maj John Bell - Give a six year old playground bully a gun and let him get frustrated in his efforts, You say Carnival Barker I say vain demagogue whose ego will not stand people defying him.
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