Trumps ties to Russia resurfacing again for all to see

Trump’s ties to Russia are deep and well documented, including by the Senate Intelligence Committee, which was dominated by Republicans when it concluded that Trump’s 2016 campaign team had worked with Russian operatives. In November 2022, in the New York Times Magazine, Jim Rutenberg pulled together testimony given both to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and the Senate Intelligence Committee, transcripts from the impeachment hearings, and recent memoirs.

Rutenberg showed that in 2016, Russian operatives had presented to Trump advisor and later campaign manager Paul Manafort a plan “for the creation of an autonomous republic in Ukraine’s east, giving Putin effective control of the country’s industrial heartland, where Kremlin-armed, -funded, and -directed ‘separatists’ were waging a two-year-old shadow war that had left nearly 10,000 dead.”

But they feared that NATO stood in the way and it was Trump's task to weaken it. And he is doing it the best he can. Trump’s 2024 campaign website calls for “fundamentally reevaluating NATO’s purpose and NATO’s mission,” and in a campaign speech he left clear what that means. He would side with Russia and encourages publicly his partner in crime to attack NATO members.

Not so long ago, many Americans—and especially most Republicans—would have considered anyone supporting such a view to be little more than a deranged and hateful anti-American fanatic.

Unfortunately it comes from a man who once held the keys to the U.S. nuclear arsenal and could once again become the commander in chief of the American military. No toddler with a tantrum, but the leader of one of America’s two major political parties has just signaled to the Kremlin that if elected, he would not only refuse to defend Europe, but he would gladly support Putin during World War III and even encourage him to do as he pleases to America’s allies.

Donald Trump would make the United States a friend to the Kremlin and an enemy to NATO. Putin knows it, and after today, so should every American.

Americans outside of Trump’s deranged personality cult should be stunned at his kind of betrayal of American principles and America’s allies.

Read more in the Letters from an American.

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