Saturday, July 23, 2016

JOSH MARSHALL STRIKES AGAIN

++Today Marshall connected the dots from the various stories about Trump and Russian financiers. The stories have spanned the news but no one has really examined what they mean or portend.

++The Atlantic ran a piece that Hillary Clinton was running against an agent of Vladimir Putin. They connected the foreign policy pronouncements with positions that favor Russia. They also threw in the mysterious re-wording of the Platform Plank on the Ukraine.

++Salon earlier in the week ran a story about how RT news switched all the coverage to be favorable to Trump.

++Marshall's point is that in the 1990s Trump owed $3 billion. He took the 2000s to recover and rebuild and he did it with Russian cash. Even now a development in Soho under federal investigation owes its existence to secret Russian monies. The cash men were all close allies of Vladimir Putin. Now Trump's  debt serving is about $600 million a year and only a German bank loans him money.

++It would be the supreme irony that a Republican nominee is a Russian agent.

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