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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Has Already Proved Himself a Russian Asset
May 30, 2017 By Taegan Goddard
Jonathan Chait: Over the last several days, the Russia scandal has taken a darker turn. Friday night, the Washington Post reported that Jared Kushner tried during the presidential transition period to set up a secret communications channel with Moscow. Tuesday morning, CNN reported that, during the 2016 campaign, Russian officials discussed having leverage of a financial nature over Trump, which could be used to manipulate the Republican nominee. The exact nature of this relationship remains as yet unknown, but its parameters have shifted. The most innocent explanations of Donald Trumps shadowy relationship with Russia have grown increasingly fanciful, while the most paranoid interpretations have grown increasingly more plausible.
Indeed, in another one of dramatic juxtapositions that would have seemed ham-handed in a spy thriller, the latest scandalous revelations came out just as Trump could be seen carrying out what looks for all the world like his end of a pact with Moscow. If the president did have an objective on his trip to Europe a premise that, it goes without saying, cannot be assumed it was to crack up the American alliance with Western Europe. That happens to have been Russias primary diplomatic objective since the end of World War II.
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Trump Has Already Proved Himself a Russian Asset (Original Post)
DonViejo
May 2017
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DK504
(3,847 posts)1. Are you kidding me?
" ...Kushner tried during the presidential transition period to set up a secret communications channel with Moscow."
He was trying to set up the "back channel" communications in the Russian Embassy. That's seems kinda treasony to me.
Gothmog
(143,998 posts)2. Putin is getting his money"s worth