Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has some sort of financial influence over former President Trump.
In an interview with MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki,” Pelosi said Putin is the “richest person in the world” and has “stiff competition” to being named the most evil person in the world.
Pelosi asked “what does he have on Donald Trump that he’d have to constantly be catering to Putin?”
Her comments came just after Trump doubled down on his criticism of NATO and said he would encourage Russia to attack U.S. allies who fail to reach the alliance’s defense spending goals. Trump has also declined to criticize Putin for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison last week.
And yet he has total fealty to Putin.
There are worst dictators than Putin such as saudi arabia kings who are well respected and supported by USA ceo and formers ceos, this does not mean these dictators have any jurisdiction over USA
He praises Putin
So does Netanyahu who you can see in plenty of pictures hugging with current USA ceo and other world leaders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu#Relations_with_foreign_leaders
"In his 2022 book, Netanyahu wrote positively about Putin and describes him as “smart, sophisticated and focused on one goal – returning Russia to its historical greatness”
He gives Putin his blessing to run roughshod over Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_military_installations
When he was president, he met with Putin and made the entire thing totally off the record so we have no idea what they said to each other.
Governments do classified meeting they don’t tell the public about daily.
I’m not sure what the U.S. spends has anything to do with what kompromat a former KGB agent might have on someone he wants in his sphere of influence.
Lean how modern warfare works, they don’t spend trillions on bullets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
Your argument seems to be “other people do it too, therefore he doesn’t have fealty to Putin.”
Which is not a very convincing argument.
That’s to give you a picture of how politics work, you can search for any politician you like and there will be pictures of them shaking hands with mafiosi or dictators. Politicians loyalty it toward these who give them money and power.
And yet that still doesn’t mean that Trump is being used by Putin through kompramat.
Your entire “this isn’t happening with Trump” argument hinges on “this other thing is happening with different people.” Which is not how it works.
