Trump and Putin: Not a hoax

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

83% : Trump's "personal affinity" for the Russian president has been long apparent, particularly since Putin's intelligence services "worked full-time to promote Trump" in the 2016 election, with the grateful cooperation of Trump and his campaign.
47% : Russia also launched "a host of disinformation projects" to help Trump in 2024.
42% : "Putin wanted Trump in the White House," and now we see why.
38% : "Putin's investment in Trump sure is paying off," said David Corn in Mother Jones.
37% : Putin, investigators found, ordered the hack into Democratic Party servers, which fed damaging information to WikiLeaks that Trump gleefully exploited.
37% : Trump is conducting mob-like shake-downs of corporations and media companies, which feel a need to make whopping campaign contributions and lawsuit settlements.
33% : The U.S. still isn't Russia, said Ed Kilgore in New York magazine, but "Trump will take his power grabs exactly as far as he is allowed to."
30% : Just a month into his presidency, Donald Trump began "openly embracing Vladimir Putin's wish list for Ukraine and beyond," and upending 80 years of foreign policy by aligning the U.S. with Russia and against NATO.

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