To: Brumar89 who wrote (3900 ) 7/27/2016 3:37:20 PM From: Brumar89 Respond to If you could prove beyond a shadow of a doubt Trump is a Russian agent who intended to destroy NATO and our alliances with Japan and South Korea in exchange for his family's business interests, it wouldn't matter a bit to his followers and supporters. They'd say he's just being a smart businessman. It wouldn't matter if he shot someone on Fifth Avenue, he himself said. He can do anything, bash POW's, you name it. Run down America in public - no problem: Scarborough : But, again: He kills journalists that don’t agree with him.Trump : Well, I think that our country does plenty of killing, too, Joe. “I don’t think we have a right to lecture,” Mr. Trump said in a wide-ranging interview in his suite in a downtown hotel here while keeping an eye on television broadcasts from the Republican National Convention. “Look at what is happening in our country,” he said. “How are we going to lecture when people are shooting policemen in cold blood?” Mr. Trump’s discussion of the crisis in Turkey was telling, because it unfolded at a moment in which he could plainly imagine himself in the White House, handling an uprising that could threaten a crucial ally in the Middle East. The United States has a major air base at Incirlik in Turkey, where it carries out attacks on the Islamic State and keeps a force of drones and about 50 nuclear weapons. Mr. Trump had nothing but praise for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country’s increasingly authoritarian but democratically elected leader. “I give great credit to him for being able to turn that around,” Mr. Trump said of the coup attempt on Friday night. “Some people say that it was staged, you know that,” he said. “I don’t think so.”Asked if Mr. Erdogan was exploiting the coup attempt to purge his political enemies, Mr. Trump did not call for the Turkish leader to observe the rule of law, or Western standards of justice. “When the world sees how bad the United States is and we start talking about civil liberties, I don’t think we are a very good messenger,” he said. Exactly How in Bed with the Russians IS Donald Trump? July 27, 2016 everybodylovestrump The Hill chronicled earlier this week, the extent of Trump’s ties to Russia would be troubling for any Presidential candidate even in the absence of the DNC story. Courting business from Russian oligarchs has long been part of Trump’s business plan: Is Russia playing in the U.S. like it has been in Europe? Russian investment has been a major target of the Trump organization . The Republican nominee’s son, Donald Jr , told a 2008 real estate conference, “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets he added: “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Investors have included Alexander Mashkevich, a Kazakh who in 2011 was investigated by Turkish prosecutors for organizing a sex party on a luxurious yacht involving underage girls. Mashkevich denied any wrongdoing. He was also at the heart of one of the longest-running cases in Belgian history involving allegations of money-laundering. The case was eventually settled after he and two associates agreed to pay an undisclosed fine in return for the dropping of the case. Another investor is former Soviet official Tevik Arif, who has been investigated off-and-on for organized-crime links.Has the Russian money and Moscow ties had consequences and does it shape candidate Trump’s foreign-policy thinking or that of the advice he receives from his aides Saudi donations to the Clinton Global Initiative have come under scrutiny, as well they should.
