Follow the money: Robert Reich explains exactly why Trump wont condemn Russia

[kpete]

Robert Reich
3 hrs ·
This morning, Putin confidante Alexey Pushkov, a Russian senator and former chairman of the parliamentary foreign relations committee, tweeted that American democracy has been undermined “not by Russia, but by the Obama administration and the media that supported Clinton against Trump.”

Trump agreed by tweeting that the “only reason the hacking of the poorly defended DNC is discussed is that the loss by the Dems was so big that they are totally embarrassed!” and that “when I am President, Russia will respect us far more than they do now.”

Here’s the truth:

1. American intelligence agencies have confirmed that Vladimir Putin ordered Russia to intervene in the 2016 presidential election on the side of Donald Trump.

2. Trump refuses to acknowledge this.

3. Over the years, Russian oligarchs, friends of Putin, have financed Trump’s projects and lent billions of dollars to Trump’s enterprises. In 2008, Donald Trump Jr., told a real estate conference “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” and continued, “we see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

4. The financial ties don’t end there. Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, a longtime consultant to Viktor Yanukovich, the Russian-backed president of Ukraine who was overthrown in 2014, has done multi-million-dollar business deals with Russian oligarchs. Also: Trump’s pick for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil, came up through the ranks at Exxon by managing the company’s Russia account. After becoming CEO, Exxon bet billions on Russia’s vast oil resources through a partnership with Russian oil giant Rosneft, owned partly by the Kremlin. Putin himself attended the 2011 signing ceremony for the deal. In 2013, Putin awarded Tillerson the Order of Friendship, one of the highest honors Russia gives to foreign citizens.

Follow the money. Always follow the money.

What do you think?
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[pbmus]

1. The rest of the story

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512675232

[tavernier]

2. Of course.

It explains the refusal to show his taxes, and his feigned Putin worship. He owes bigly, and I'm just a bit surprised (and annoyed) the money trail hasn't been followed by our clever (snort) msm.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Amazing how all of a sudden BAM,

here comes the Background on our so called President Elect. As for me,our Fourth Estate has become the laughing stock of the World.

Please research Blackstone Group. As many off us already knew,it is a Russian Mafia operation run by ex Enron Thieves.

[2naSalit]

5. Yup.

[uponit7771]

6. There were more stories on fuckin emails than all other issues combined

[Wellstone ruled]

8. That was the agreement

when the Major Media Companies agreed to go Hillary is a Crook. What did Moonves say,we are going to make tons of profits from this campaign. And Zucker was all smiles.

[uponit7771]

14. +1, When I heared Mika admit the coverage of Clinton was unfair and then say so what I knew somethin

... was up and the M$M had to be colluding to some degree.

[2naSalit]

4. K&R!!

[RiverStone]

7. Thanks Robert for speaking truth to power!

We need LOTS more Dems to do the same!!

[gulliver]

9. Putin's money should be watched too.

Russia's economy is terrible, but somehow Putin is worth tens of billions of dollars. The media should be focusing on why Putin wants Trump in power.

[ffr]

10. It's always about the money. What's the question?

We are sooooo fcuked under this GOP regime!!

[nolabels]

11. As far as i can see the whole thing looks like a charade to me

No doubt Trump has a bill or two to the loan sharks on that side of the globe. But it would make more sense to me and was plausible that there was a lot of inside help over on this side of globe for anything to be pulled off. As far as that goes it seems all to convenient just like things on 9/11, for all these ready made answers and scenarios. Mostly people who have power just lie to your face just because they think they can get away with it.

From known liars, that lie more than tell the truth, you would accept things from them as truth

[ananda]

12. Exactly!

With the Trumps, it's always about money and hate.

[Orrex]

13. Someone on DU called this months ago

Wish I could remember who was first, but it's seemed obvious for a long time.

[BSdetect]

15. K&R