Justice101

The Moscow Trump Tower never came to fruition. What you are saying appears to be speculation with Putin "owning Trump" in regard to bank loans and real estate purchases.

CNN reports that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen wasn't able to get a real estate deal in Moscow.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/30/politics/russia-peskov-trump-lawyer-email/index.html

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Well darn so much info about it, I will only bring a couple of examaples.. of so..


https://www.insider.com/putin-got-what-he-wants-from-nato-trump-2019-12

Russia's main strategy to deter NATO is to encourage splits that will paralyze the alliance's ability to respond to aggression in a unified way.
NATO only works as long as all its 29 countries remain continuously on board with "Article 5," the promise that they will automatically fight if any of them are attacked.
This week, Trump said Article 5 was merely a "question."
Trump has also driven Turkey into a compromising arms deal with Russia.
The US president is so toxic that, internally, NATO officials regard him as a security risk.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is afraid to be seen with him.
These splits are exactly what Vladimir Putin wants.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165553/donald-trump-everything-vladimir-putin-wished-russian-asset

Donald Trump Was Everything Vladimir Putin Could Have Wished For
From the days when the KGB sought to cultivate him 40 years ago to his term as president, Trump was a useful stooge. And if he gets another term, he still can be.

Putin, you may recall, famously regards the death of the Soviet Union as the “greatest catastrophe” in history and has the larger ambition of not just taking back Ukraine but also rolling back all the advances by NATO since the collapse of the USSR. And it just happens that the most powerful weapon ever devised to subvert NATO was Trump, who had been doing an extraordinarily effective job of crippling NATO from within and planned to shatter it in his second term.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/how-russian-money-helped-save-trumps-business/

How Russian Money Helped Save Trump’s Business
After his financial disasters two decades ago, no U.S. bank would touch him. Then foreign money began flowing in.


https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/17/politics/trump-soft-on-russia/index.html

37 times Trump was soft on Russia******* Only a few of these in the post.. for the rest, follow the link....

But Trump’s narrative is simply false, based on his own actions over the last few years. Here’s a breakdown of 37 occasions when Trump was soft on Russia or gave Putin a boost.

Trump has repeatedly praised Putin
While he was a private citizen, during his 2016 campaign and throughout his presidency, Trump has showered Putin with praise. He said Putin was “so nice,” he called Putin a “strong leader” and said Putin has done “a really great job outsmarting our country.” Trump also claimed he’d “get along very well” with Putin. Few, if any, Western leaders have echoed these comments.

Trump hired Manafort to run his campaign
Trump raised eyebrows in spring 2016 when he hired GOP operative Paul Manafort to run his presidential campaign. Manafort spent a decade working for pro-Russian politicians and parties in Ukraine and cultivated close relationships with Putin-friendly oligarchs. Manafort was sentenced in 2019 to 7.5 years prison for, among other things, evading taxes on the $60 million he had made in Ukraine. (He was released to house arrest in May 2020 amid coronavirus concerns.)

Trump suggested Russia can keep Crimea
Trump said Putin did “an amazing job of taking the mantle” when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump broke with US policy and suggested he was OK if Russia kept the Ukrainian territory. He repeated a Kremlin talking point, saying, “The people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were.”

Trump aides softened GOP platform on Ukraine
Ahead of the 2016 Republican National Convention, Trump campaign aides blocked language from the party platform that called for the US government to send lethal weapons to Ukraine for its war against Russian proxies. Mueller investigated this for potential collusion but determined the change was not made “at the behest” of Russia. (The Trump administration ultimately gave lethal arms and anti-tank weapons to the Ukrainian military.)

Trump made light of Russian hacking
Throughout the 2016 campaign, Trump cast doubt on the US government assessment that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman. At a news conference in July 2016, he even asked Russia to hack more, saying, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,”

Trump capitalized on Russian meddling to win
Instead of condemning Russia for hacking and leaking Democratic emails, Trump eagerly capitalized on the Kremlin’s meddling, and used the emails to attack Clinton on a near-daily basis in the final stretch of the campaign. The Mueller report said Trump’s campaign “expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts” and that top officials believed they had inside information about WikiLeaks, so they planned a strategy around the expected release of hacked emails.

Trump denied that Russia

BIRDMAN

Turkey and hungry both are siding with Russia not when Trump was president now that Brandon is president

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Turkey has been a problem child for several decades.. I am not privy to whatever the heck Hungry is up to.. I was going to check it out a bit several months ago.. oor last summer.. and then it came and went.. no idea what that situation is.. if you are clued in, post it so I am not so far out of the loop.. hate that..

LostAggie66 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX (Shire of Seawinds)

Well said perm

LostAggie66 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX (Shire of Seawinds)

LostAggie66 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX (Shire of Seawinds)

Right Behind You perm.

LostAggie66 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX (Shire of Seawinds)

LostAggie66 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX (Shire of Seawinds)

Great Political cartoon

RandyBrian Loc: Texas

I do not think Trump owed Putin anything at all. I think Trump made choices that he believed, and his advisors believed, were good for the United States . I also think that you are addicted to circular arguments just like Rascal.
Both of you argue Trump did this 'list of things' because he is corrupt, bad, stupid, whatever, and all this 'list of things' MUST be bad just because Trump did them. Then you strive to rationalize those beliefs is some of the most incredible twists and turns. It is an amazing thing to watch......but is utterly unconvincing, and a little sad.

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

So, I suppose that what you are saying is that destruction of NATO is good, the Tax gift to the very rich at the expense of middle class is good, the betrayal of our allies the Kurds is good, allowing Russia to become the power of the ME is good, the promotion of higher oil prices which drive up gas pump prices is good. So tell me Randy is anything trumpian not good???

youngwilliam Loc: Deep in the heart

Giving a reach around I see.

RandyBrian Loc: Texas

NATO has been destroyed?
Every American tax payor, rich or poor, did not get a tax break?
We betrayed the Kurds?
We 'allowed' Russia to become the power in the ME? By NOT going to war, we did that?
Oil and gas prices were really that much higher under Trump that Biden? Huh. And here I thought $1.80 per gallon was LOWER than $3.29 a gallon.
MY, my, my. I learn (or at least hear) new things every day.
Trump did quite a few things I disagreed with......mainly he should have cleaned out all the entrenched executive branch career employees and replaced them with his own people, like Obama did. But that is another topic. Please concentrate on answering MY questions.

BIRDMAN

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