"But Trump’s pro-Putin positions are not based on a principled anti-war stance. It’s more personal than that. For example, Trump’s son Donald, Jr. has acknowledged 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 that Russian money has “made up a pretty disproportionate section of a lot of our [the Trump Organization’s] assets.” Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns—which all other major party nominees have done for over forty years—has raised speculation that it might reveal embarrassing details of Kremlin-related financial deals. According to Bill Browder http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2016/08/trump-campaign-still-playing-russian-roulette-foreign-policy, who once operated the largest foreign-investment fund in Russia, “Trump is a dealmaker, and I can’t imagine that he would be doing this [promoting policies favorable to Russia] unless there was something in it for him. He doesn’t think of it as high treason. He thinks of it as a deal. What that deal is we don’t know.” In response to questions about Trump’s repeated praise of Putin’s strengths as a leader, his runningmate Mike Pence http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/08/politics/mike-pence-on-donald-trump-vladimir-putin/ stated, "it's inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader” than President Obama. When Trump was asked about his pro-Putin rhetoric, he cited the Russian president’s poll numbers, showing by close to 80 percent favorable ratings among the Russian public. In response, Stanford University professor and former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul https://twitter.com/McFaul/status/774254648819453957 tweeted, “If Obama seized control of Fox, allowed only supporters in Congress, closed the NRA and arrested Trump, he, too, might have 80 percent approval rating.” Trump likes Putin because he is a strongman. That should make Americans worry, no matter what their politics. Putin's U.S. Defenders | The Progressive http://www.progressive.org/news/2016/09/188950/putins-us-defenders
http://www.progressive.org/news/2016/09/188950/putins-us-defenders Putin's U.S. Defenders | The Progressive http://www.progressive.org/news/2016/09/188950/putins-us-defenders Vladimir Putin, Direct Line View on www.progressive.org http://www.progressive.org/news/2016/09/188950/putins-us-defenders Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Trump's continual fawning over Putin is one of the most astonishing things I have seen in American politics. The GOP nominee falling over backwards to say positive things about the Russian leader and about Russia's role in world events? Who would ever have thought it? Why does he do it? My money is on Trump having business interests in Russia that he wants to protect. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <olliesedwuz@...> wrote : Someone is off their meds... Trump says if he wins election he might meet with Putin before officially taking office https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-says-wins-election-might-145034604.html https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-says-wins-election-might-145034604.html Trump says if he wins election he might meet with Putin ... https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-says-wins-election-might-145034604.html Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is still cozying up to Russian President Vladimir... View on www.yahoo.com https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-says-wins-election-might-145034604.html Preview by Yahoo
