It could be a thing.
Trump & Putin. Yes, It's Really a Thing
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Donald Trump
Election 2016
Foreign Policy
Posted >1 y ago
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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."
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."
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