2016 Postmortem

NastyRiffraff

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37. And then there's this...

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 04:46 PM

Jul 2016

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia.
6:50 PM - 26 Jul 2016
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The evasiveness of this answer is pretty obvious. Nobody cares all that much if Trump has business in Russia, they care whether Russian money funds his business here—which might explain why he's so friendly to Russian interests. He has very carefully avoided answering that question. That's a bad sign since he would normally just lie about it. He must know that evidence of his reliance on Russian money is out there.

Trump's tax returns would tell us the answer, of course, but Trump has declined to release them, unlike every other presidential candidate of the past few decades. Maybe now we know why.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/07/does-russian-money-keep-donald-trump-afloat

I don't think this is going to go away.

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And then there's this... NastyRiffraff Jul 2016 #37