Trump is dyslexic and like me chokes when faced with something truly terrifying

[applegrove]

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to him. In Trump's case Putin makes him go blank on any Russia issue. Notice how he talks around Putin. Suppress suppress suppress all Russia interference info in his episodic memory brain. I don't know why Trump is so afraid of putin. But it is interspecies predator fear of Putin. I doubt Trump thinks putin could kill him physically. Maybe political or financial death?

Why do I go blank as a dyslexic? So that I can handle an imminent attack on my psychology and be prepared to have it not damage me, a more rigid psychy could get damaged. So that I don't provoke the interspecies human preditor too. A number of survival reasons.

[greymattermom]

1. It's financial

money is everything to him.

[unblock]

2. he's afraid putin will say, "no, puppet! no, puppet! you're the puppet!"

he'd be ruined overnight if putin said that.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Financial, Trump owes Putin or the banks Putin and friends own, hundreds of millions.

And Trump has no ability to differentiate between patriotism vs his own greed.

His mind and brain is literally incapable of comprehending compassion, decency, fairness, etc.

He sees and thinks only of greed and revenge and attacking women when he feels like it.

This is who he is, period. No wonder so many men on the right want to be him and so many women on the right want him to be daddy.

[underpants]

10. Excellent analysis.

Seriously that is the best concise description of him that I've read.

I will add this, I don't think he's patriot. Patriotism involves pride or love of country. Trump's world is him. Where he stands, he thinks, is the center of the universe. NYC was his play ground and his properties are his get away. Mostly wherever he goes he WAS what everything revolved around.

[WinkyDink]

4. "I doubt Trump thinks Putin could kill him physically." I disagree 100%. As Clint Watts said,

"Follow the trail of dead Russians."

Trump is terrified. He turned traitor SPECIFICALLY to pay his debt, get favorable status for Russia, and stay alive.

(P.S. He's seen the JFK files, as they all see.)

[BigmanPigman]

5. His mind is a vacuum.

Ego and greed fuel him. Besides, Putin is blackmailing him on top of it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. I'm pretty sure it has to do with financial crimes

that Trump is up to his beady little eyes in. The Russian government is a criminal enterprise, and Putin is the capo di tutti capi. We know that Trump has done a lot of business in Russia (his sons Uday and Qusay have said so quite expressly), and we know that he's close to some dodgy characters like Manafort (and his own son-in-law) who have relationships with a Russian bank that isn't a bank, and the Bank of Cyprus, which are under sanctions. Because of the sanctions the Russians need a way to launder money, and one of the best ways of doing that involves commercial real estate transactions, which also make the Trump Organization a whole lot of money. I will not be at all surprised if it turns out that Trump, his family and his associates have been engaged in money laundering, racketeering and tax evasion.

And this is why Trump is afraid to cross Putin. Putin would just have to find another sucker to launder money for him, but Trump, his family, his associates and his businesses could be in a whole lot of very serious legal trouble.

[underpants]

11. I have no doubt about the money laundering

Not just on the large scale but consider $750 (at least) a night rooms - let's say just 10 a night and every Trump property around the world. Every property every night.

[emulatorloo]

7. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

We're gonna find out Putin, the Russian Mob and/or Russian Oligarchs own him financially. There are folks on Mueller's team who are experts at tracking down/prosecuting financial crimes.

[iamateacher]

8. Nope

He owes them money.

[applegrove]

9. Oh that would be a kind of death to him. He's acting like his life, or his

life as he knows it, is on the line.