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Originally Posted by Riverman
Trump was going broke, Russians needed to launder money. They financed his ****ty real estate projects, likely with help from awful regimes when necessary. Then said Russians laundered money by buying real estate in aforementioned Trump real estate projects, likely reselling units to politically connected criminal types in exchange for criminal favors (weapons, oil, etc.).
Trump gets cash, Russians launder money, really bad guys get guns and worse.
This is the most of it, for Trump. Maybe add in the huge amount of high level Russian criminal activity taking place at Trump properties over the decades. We know this because of the countless raids conducted on tenants in which arrests were made, and how many were people Trump knew (sometimes very well) and then forgot he knew after they got busted. And that's just Trump Tower.
Aside from Trump, there are other related goings on from each of the campaign, the White House, the cabinet, and the GOP.
Step back another level and we see how American issues are just a part of Putin's agenda. And the evilness of his actions is only limited by how much he can get away with. As probably the richest, and one of the most powerful people in the world, his ambitions make him the biggest danger global Democracy has faced.
We need to be doing something about this stuff months, maybe years ago. Instead, Trump is helping to escalate the chiseling away of our basic rights and needs. Otherwise we should soon start accepting a life much more like the people of Russia and North Korea, and get used to the fact that the criminals in Our Leader's inner circle will be the only ones who can have anything.
There's probably a pee tape too.