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.

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So. Israel has financial influence over the DNC and Biden. Tacoma wept.

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I have no reason to think she’s wrong here, but I also think people shouldn’t be “suggesting” and “hinting at” these things. Instead, people should present the evidence to the prosecutors and let the man go to prison. You don’t need any media circus for this to happen.

But then again, I guess everything is a presidential race now.

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She is probably right, but she also likes to accuse anyone who disagrees with her of being a Putin shill so they should find someone with better credibility.

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Did I slide to a dimension where trump hasn’t spent most of his adult life in business with Russian oligarchs? Is your response to hearing Pelosi’s lucid musings anything other than “no titty fucking shit Sherlock”? Did trump seriously not have a giant money laundering casino for Russians named the Taj Mahal here???

I am going to enjoy this reality. 😊 Checks Wikipedia 🙄 Oh, nvm. I forgot that I already live in the dimension where a preponderance of evidence isn’t enough to establish a preponderance of evidence. My bad.

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The problem is time. Trump doesn’t need any more criminal charges to send him to jail, he just needs the courts to finish doing their job, which takes time.

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And by “financial influence over” she means “has him by the balls”?

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Water is wet

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Grass is green, sky is blue. More at 11!

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Duh! And/or Hello!?

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Ah yes, the woman who called people’s who asked for a ceasefire in Gaza “Russian and Chinese trolls”.

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This tracks like a subway line into a brick wall

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Does that impact her comment at all or were you just itching to talk about that again?

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A person that receives massive bribes from israel is throwing someone under the bus for taking massive bribes from Russia…

I’m glad someone is still buying into this theatre. More posts about Orange Man on my front page please. Nanshill Pelosi is definitely going to liberate America.

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I’m googling for what you’re talking about and finding nothing. Do you mean she takes contributions from pro-Israel PACs, the entirely legal way politicians raise money?

And you’re equating it to a foreign leader having secret leverage over a likely major party nominee?

No matter the false equivalence you find it wouldn’t impact whether or not she’s right, I’m just shocked at how far you’re willing to stretch to find an equivalence.

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He’s probably just saying “consider the source” in a roundabout way. I’d only take stock tips from Pelosi.

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But the source is a person who has expertise being a major government figure for decades. You don’t have to like her or agree with her but her stock trading has zero impact on whether or not she is right about Putin’s financial influence over Trump.

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