Americans understand debt and leverage. It is not a strange idea that Trump's debt will compromise the USA.
By Cal North
The GOP has one argument right. There is a glaring flaw in the impeachment investigation and hearings. The interference in our elections is about more than massaging Donald J. Trump's thirst for power.
What they have wrong is the lack of attention to the fact, well demonstrated by the president, that all of his actions are in service to Vladimir Putin's drive to revive imperial Russia and to subjugate all of Eastern Europe to it.
That Russian program explains most of what Trump has been doing ever since he met with Putin as a private businessman. His meetings with Putin and his highest aides have been held out of hearing of anyone who might record what was said as they planned their next steps.
Trump is trying to pay off his hundreds of millions of dollar debt to the ruling clique of Russia, and control of our government is the payment required of him. That payment is the auction price for the USA.
Cal North, Kearns
The New York Times provided a service to the American people in answering questions that have lingered for years.
October 16, 2016
By Former Reps. Jim Slattery, Chris Shays, Tom Coleman, Richard Sweet and Michael Andrews
Americans (click here) do not know the extent of Donald Trump’s business relations with Russia or China, but we need to know.
In 2008, Donald Trump Jr. — the GOP nominee’s son and the VP for Development for The Trump Organization — told attendees at a real estate conference in New York City that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Americans need to know how much money has poured into The Trump Organization from Russia and from whom. Sergei Millian, the president of the U.S. Russian Chamber of Commerce and friend of Trump, claims in 2016 the figure is in the hundreds of millions....
The Russian government owns the banks and every wealthy oligarch in the country. It is impossible to deal with Russia in any way without dealing with the Russian government.
By Franklin Foer
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev holds a meeting with a supervisory board of Russian state-owned investment bank Vnesheconombank in Moscow, July 11, 2012.
Vladimir Putin has a plan for destroying the West (click here) —and that plan looks a lot like Donald Trump. Over the past decade, Russia has boosted right-wing populists across Europe. It loaned money to Marine Le Pen in France, well-documented transfusions of cash to keep her presidential campaign alive. Such largesse also wended its way to the former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, who profited “personally and handsomely” from Russian energy deals, as an American ambassador to Rome once put it. (Berlusconi also shared a 240-year-old bottle of Crimean wine with Putin and apparently makes ample use of a bed gifted to him by the Russian president.)...
