Do You Think Trump Actively Sought Russian Help And Colluded?

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10. trump has been corrupt and dependent on

ill-gotten gains since at least the 1980s. Russia and Putin actively cultivated him. He is a party to a global network of organized crime. He knows where these funds are coming from, and has staged his distance from them...plausible deniability (lending his name - branding - rather than owning his buildings).

Whether there was an overt master plan at the outset that trump participated in designing down to the detail, not sure. But he ran with their backing, which he was aware of; the leaking and hacking and “botting" it took to get him elected he rubber stamped -"whatever it takes"; and the cover up and lies, he sanctioned and gave his blessing to.

He is also owned and being blackmailed by, now, his Russian overseers - kompromat of various forms and vulgarity.

Luke Harding, a Guardian journo who wrote the new book Collusion is a great source. Terry Gross recently did an excellent one hour interview of him, which I highly recommend.