If you combine the point from 3 recent news articles. It's possible IMO to reconcile Trump/Russia

[usaf-vet]

First, Trump is quoted saying to General Kelly at the graveside of General Kelly's KIA son. Quote: "I don't get it what was in it for him". Meaning what benefit aka money/wealth in Trump's brain.

Clearly explained in the following:

Second, Mary L. Trump's book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man made it clear that money and more money is the only thing that has always driven the Trump family members.

And now most recently.

Third, Former FBI agent Peter Strzok alleges in a new book (“Compromised”) that investigators came to believe it was “conceivable, if unlikely” that Russia was secretly controlling President Trump after he took office — a full-fledged “Manchurian candidate” installed as America’s commander in chief.

He writes in the book.

“I don’t think that Trump, when he meets with Putin, receives a task list for the next quarter,” Strzok said, referencing the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. “But I do think the president is compromised, that he is unable to put the interests of our nation first, that he acts from hidden motives, because there is leverage over him, held specifically by the Russians but potentially others as well.”

[Trump] "is unable to put the interests of our nation first, that he acts from hidden motives"

It seems very clear to me as others have suggested that THE ONLY THING that Trump values, his motive, is the same in all three cases. And he would sell out his country and probably HAS for his only motive.

MONEY, WEALTH everything is about MONEY, WEALTH. To quote Mary L. Trump "Too Much and Never Enough"

[OregonBlue]

1. Agreed. And many of the GOP Senators and Representatives as well.

[SheltieLover]

2. Absolutely!

[Sneederbunk]

3. Our first anti-American president.

[usaf-vet]

4. From Trump's attorney's new book.

On Russia, Cohen writes that the cause behind Trump’s admiration of Russian President Vladimir Putin is simpler than many of his critics assume. Above all, he writes, Trump loves money — and he wrongly identified Putin as ‘the richest man in the world by a multiple,'” the newspaper reported. “Trump loved Putin, Cohen wrote, because the Russian leader had the ability ‘to take over an entire nation and run it like it was his personal company — like the Trump Organization, in fact.'”[/ b]

[Yavin4]

5. It's simply the natural evolution of all Republican/Conservative policies.

Money is the only real value. Not country. Not patriotism. Not quality of life. No. It's money.

If a powerful, foreign interest wanted to seize control of the U.S. and paid off the Republican party along with its top donors, these people would gladly hand over sovreignty if it made them richer beyond their wildest dreams.

Conservatism has never valued people. Never. It was always the interests of the wealthy over everything else. Coddling Evangelicals, gun nuts, and other rubes was a small price to pay to gain access to power, and what did they do with that power? Pass tax cuts for the wealthy and de-regulate businesses. They did this on state and federal levels.

[usaf-vet]

6. Can't argue with one word of what you say. And the Trumps are willing to do anything for money.