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.
Has since the 1980’s.
Compromised people shouldn’t talk about other compromised people. Her stocks are looking pretty good from all her inside knowledge. Just different people paying for the influence.
Eh, if I have to team up with a lesser devil to defeat a greater one then I’ll do it. One thing at a time.
Why shouldn’t compromised people talk about other compromised people? Shouldn’t we want all compromised people to be called out?
Yeah, but also question why one compromised person is calling out the other. Like in politics, some people insult their opponent to get more support, etc.
I don’t give a shit why they’re stabbing each other in the back. I’m pro-stabbing in general with these people.
Do these people have a multi-year brain lapse of this stuff? We suspected and had a good idea about this 4 years ago (and longer). And only now does Pelosi figure it out?
More reason to not have old farts around.
What makes you think she just figured it out? Good chance she was asked to not confirm it/talk about it publicly for some reason or didn’t feel like it was right do so. Why? No mother fucking clue (and I’m not defending her) but guaranteed people at the cia, fbi, etc have known about this for decades which would mean anyone with a security clearance probably knew as well.
Remember when we were the crazy conspiracy nut jobs because we “knew” russia helped get trump elected with a social media psy op campaign? Pepperidge farms remembers.
this is one of those things that are fairly obvious if you thought about it for a while even if there was no evidence to prove it. because, sure he is deferential to autocrat strongmen but it was to a different scale with putin.
I’m inclined to believe this. But I wouldn’t dare repeat it without better journalistic integrity.
Any staunch political operative saying anything at all about their opponent should be treated like nothing at all had been said, much less as news.
This goes for literally every statement that comes off of Trump’s mouth and fingers too.
Any staunch political operative saying anything at all about their opponent should be treated like nothing at all had been said, much less as news.
I mean, this statement would carry more weight from someone who wasn’t the in Leadership for 30 years thanks entirely do to her prodigious fundraising abilities. For Nancy Pelosi, a woman who coordinated $37M from disgraced cryptocurrency con-artist Sam Bankman Fried in exchange for carte blanche legislative authorship, to complain about someone being financially influenced…
It isn’t that she’s wrong, its that - from Ted Cruz to Adam Schiff - getting fat stacks for your campaign / private business / family in exchange for influence over public policy is totally normal. Democrats are orders of magnitude more terrified of AIPAC than any MAGA Republican is of a Russian influence peddling campaign. And they’re all bent over and cheeks spread to JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and the rest of the mega-banks.
The only thing that makes this news is the national understanding that getting kickbacks from a billionaire psychopath in Saudi Arabia or Korea is cool and good but getting them from a National Enemy like Putin is unacceptable.
I mean, there’s a lot of evidence to support the accusation.
What other evidence do you require? All of his very well documented deals in Russia are only allowed if the Kremlin approves the contracts. Trump personally profits directly from those deals and he refused to put his holdings into a blind trust, casually continuing to profit off of dealings with the enemy.
In other news the sun is hot.
This is always said so dismissively. Like, even if everyone knows it, if it’s still a problem it’s a good idea to keep talking about it.
Better would be doing something about it, which she’s not doing. But still.
And I like beer
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
Pelosi noted that Trump’s comments on NATO come near the two-year anniversary of Russia invading Ukraine.
Psaki asked Pelosi what she thinks Putin has on Trump to make him refuse to criticize the Russian leader.
Pelosi warned that Trump’s actions after Navalny was found dead show he is a “person without values.”
“The sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our Country,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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And by “financial influence over” she means “has him by the balls”?
Fuck Pelosi, she held her hand over Trump, when they had a chance to stop him.
Stating the obvious 6-7 years later isn’t any help.Pelosi has Soros’ financial interests.
Is soros in the room with you right now? Did you check under the bed? I’m pretty sure your mom would have noticed when she was cleaning up the empty cheetos bags you stuff under there like an animal.
Cool! Now are we gonna get any laws to prohibit this national security threat? Maybe ban shady donations from billionaires both American and abroad? Because if we just ban Putin from donating directly, they can just make a shell company in New York and fund him.
We’re going to get the laws put into place to stop this, right? Anything to stop Trump from getting into the office again?
Financially compromised crypt keeper speaks out about financially compromised orange fuckwit
Next she’s going to suggest Alphabet has financial influence over Google!
NO FUCKING SHIT NANCY
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