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Why Would He Help Putin? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Remember as well, trump’s business ties (the only kind of ties he pays attention to -such as it is) in russia go back forty years.

The fixation on the ties as "Russian" are misplaced, as they're largely via the New York mafia and attendant money laundering banks. I would look more towards the Steve Bannons and Zachary Fuentes's, were I to be looking for folks leaking to the FSB.

It’s not just vanilla doing-what-putin-wants, it’s a decades-long operation.

Trump pretty famously doesn't pay well, which means a lot of his staff ultimately need to be on the take in order to make working for Trump profitable. And its not in any way unique to Vlad.