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Showing Original Post only (View all)Washington Post: Treason in a nutshell by Seth Abramson [View all]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/12/06/people-cant-stop-reading-a-professors-theory-of-a-trump-russia-conspiracy-true-or-not/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_with_top_mostshared_1_na&utm_term=.b33fdcf31891After trying for many years to expand his business empire into Russia, Abramson asserts, Trump visited Moscow in 2013 to personally meet agents of Russian President Vladmir Putin, using his beauty pageant as cover.
There, Abramson writes, a secret deal was struck: Putin agreed to open up his countrys rich real estate market to Trump, and Trump agreed to campaign for president while promoting pro-Russian policies.
Simple as that. And everything that has happened since the election hacking, Trumps improbable win and a special counsels investigation into his campaign and administration follows from that deal, in Abramsons telling.
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The CORE NARRATIVE is simple, as Abramson wrote in a typically styled Twitter thread over the weekend. America was SOLD OUT by men who wanted POWER and were willing to trade U.S. POLICY to get it.
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We need more revelations of global banking, money laundering, tax evasion, ....
L. Coyote
Dec 2017
#9
the drumpf/putin crime syndicate makes Al Capone look like a bully that steals your lunch money
Takket
Dec 2017
#31
Seth also says it would be a mistake for the Democrats to impeach Trump in 2019 because
sagesnow
Dec 2017
#6
Yes, and underestimating anger at his staying. He has 60% disapproval. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2017
#20
That, unfortunately, is only true in presidential elections, and even in those...
better
Dec 2017
#30
I've said many times that I'm convinced that if he goes, it will be voluntary under 25th....
getagrip_already
Dec 2017
#59
If Trump deteriorates mentally so that he can't continue, then we have Pence.
ginnyinWI
Dec 2017
#17
Pence like Ford. Also, he might go before or with tRump. Latter would be best to thwart Ryan.
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2017
#25
I don't know if there'll be anything left worth saving if we wait til 2020
RandomAccess
Dec 2017
#50
But Stalin was not a communist - just a despot/tyrant who used the mantle for power
erronis
Dec 2017
#38
Is there a box labeled "Communist" that Trump needs to check on his tax forms?
NBachers
Dec 2017
#22
Disputing the fact of Russian Communism, or DJT being a likely member of such doesn't mean
whathehell
Dec 2017
#58
Why hasn't Trump implemented the Russia Sanctions that congress has passed?
Peaceful Protester
Dec 2017
#21
It's all there and so obvious: Including his surprise when he won. Remember all those
lindysalsagal
Dec 2017
#45