Jill Stein lies through her teeth about her Putin dinner in Moscow.

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65. As Malcom Nance has repeatedly pointed out, Russian motives and actions are multi-layered...

All those Americans were there, and afaik all of them took Russian money. There was at least one translator there; he just was not translating from Russian to English, was he? The Russians got a picture of all those Americans in the same room with Putin et al.

So Putin learned quite a bit from this exercise. One thing is: can a quid pro quo be established now and in the future? How much can the Russians get? What will the Americans want?

Another thing learned is: how many plausible American politicians and opinion makers are willing to deal with Putin? Easy does it, slowly make friends, establish trust, give money -- finally demand something in return.

Splashing money around is really easy for Russian oligarchs, and Putin controls them all. So the Trumps were groomed for years, weren't they? And finally, Putin got himself a potus who is beholden to him, bigly.