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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
Mon Jul 16, 2018, 03:04 PM Jul 2018

Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart -- Or His Handler?

How do you even think about the small but real chance that the president of the United States has been influenced or compromised by a hostile foreign power for decades?

By Jonathan Chait/July 8, 2018 9:00 pm

.............And it would mean the Russia scandal began far earlier than conventionally understood and ended later — indeed, is still happening. As Trump arranges to meet face-to-face and privately with Vladimir Putin later this month, the collusion between the two men metastasizing from a dark accusation into an open alliance, it would be dangerous not to consider the possibility that the summit is less a negotiation between two heads of state than a meeting between a Russian-intelligence asset and his handler. Much more to read at the link.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html

* This is a very long article and an amazing read! Enjoy!!


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