The financial entanglements alone are staggering. His businesses have long relied on dubious cash flows, and his son Don Jr. even admitted in 2008 that Russian money played a significant role in their assets. When you factor in Trump’s mysteriously generous Deutsche Bank loans—at a time when no Western bank would touch him—alarm bells start ringing. And it just so happens that Deutsche Bank was fined for laundering billions in Russian money. Coincidence? Perhaps. Or perhaps Russia has been bankrolling him in ways we don’t fully understand.
The infamous Steele dossier may not have been fully verified, but it wasn’t plucked from thin air. Maybe there’s a tape, maybe there isn’t. But let’s not pretend Trump hasn’t left himself open to that kind of scenario.
And then his behaviour—because even if you ignore the financials, even if you dismiss the kompromat theories, it is self-evident that he bends over backwards to defend Putin at every opportunity: his secret, interpreter-free meetings with the Russian leader; his constant attacks on NATO; his attempts to block military aid to Ukraine—makes no sense from a rational American perspective in terms of strategic security policy.
The silence from US politicians outside his immediate circle/ ex-presidents is deafening.