Trump and Putin

[Kbop]

I am curious.  Reading blogs, the news, Trump and Putin's own words.

Do you support Trump's views even though he is friendly towards a person who has stated publicly his wish to take down NATO and the US of A - much out of angst from the cold war.

Do you think this is a false narrative and both Trump and Putin are being maligned?

How do you feel that Trump's son in law wanted encrypted and secure coms directly with a bank Putin essentially owns. And with Putin's intelligence staff?

How do you feel about so many of Trump's cabinet members either on Russia's pay-roll or lying about their relationships with Russian intelligence agents - prior to the elections?

I'm looking forward to your thoughts   

[JoJo]

 Know your enemy! The only way to do that is to communicate. You get more information when your enemy is not in an attack mode during meetings. Make him think you want to be friends.

 The false narrative is that President Trump and anyone in his cabinet is connected with Russia. Just like democrat Maxine Waters who has $200,000 in Russian stock, business people do business with everyone.

 No-one with any sense in the business world wants knowledge of their deals for everyone to see. Besides Putin owns everything, it's a communist country. There are people on this board that encrypt their messages. It's a nothing there there.

 There are five investigations going on and they have absolutely NO evidence of any wrong doing of President Trump or any of his team being connected to Russia other than what is legal. They say there is smoke but no fire. the smoke they see is the fog in their eyes. The only illegal happenings are from obamas hold overs and bernie,s supporters leaking secret information to Wikileaks and liberal news media.

 

[pkveazey]

It's getting a bit stale to keep hearing and reading things that profess to be the facts and every other word is , might be, it is suspected, we believe, people are saying, maybe, if, . what a load of crap . I'm willing to listen to the FACTS but all this inuendo that's being reported as facts is getting pretty old.

[pkveazey]

Hmmmmmm... Oh, I get it. Guilty by association. I know a couple of shady characters, pretty well. Does that mean I'm a criminal? Trying to put Trump in the middle of something that he has nothing to do with seems like a pretty big stretch and I see nothing wrong with someone trying to keep their business dealings secret. I certainly keep my business dealings as confidential as possible.

[Kbop]

Ok so Kushner was conducting business at high levels in Russia and wanted more secure coms.  Makes sense.

maybe this is just a post cold war hangover for me.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around how many of Trump's cabinet members seem to be in bed with the Russians.  To be fair, i guess that isn't about Trump, its about his cabinet.

I'm interested in what Comey has to say.

[Nemo]

Who was the famous guy that commented-- Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.--?

I sure believe there is validity in that theory.

Nemo