UNDERNEWS: About Putin and Trump

April 14, 2022

About Putin and Trump

Sam Smith - Donald Trump's refusal to describe Putin as evil raises a couple of possibilities:

Putin knows something about Trump that Trump doesn't want the public to know.
Trump is so deep in debt to Russians that he doesn't want to annoy any of his creditors.

In any case, Trump's silence on Putin's evils is more news in waiting.

And reader RevDaley suggests adding "Trump is hoping for Putin's help in the next POTUS election."

2 comments:

Strelnikov said...: Trump is now a complete pudding-brain, judging by his comments and those fatuous communiques he sends out instead of Tweeting. Take my word on this, the Trump organization is HEAVILY in debt to Russian banks and that's why they stay mum about everything the Motherland has been doing since the end of February. It's all about money, there is no "pee tape", Trump is poison to every financial institution (even Deutsche Bank) that isn't run like a Mafia bank.; April 14, 2022 at 3:46 PM
Greg Gerritt said...: Probably Both; April 14, 2022 at 4:56 PM

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