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"The problem of overseas conflicts emerges from the nature of Trump’s business in recent years." - How the Trump Organization's Foreign Business Ties Could Upend U.S. National Security - Newsweek

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"The problem of overseas conflicts emerges from the nature of Trump’s business in recent years. Much of the public believes Trump is a hugely successful developer, a television personality and a failed casino operator. But his primary business deals for almost a decade have been a quite different endeavor. The GOP nominee is essentially a licensor who leverages his celebrity into streams of cash from partners from all over the world. The business model for Trump’s company started to change around 2007, after he became the star of NBC’s  The Apprentice , which boosted his national and international fame. Rather than constructing Trump’s own hotels, office towers and other buildings, much of his business involved striking deals with overseas developers who pay his company for the right to slap his name on their buildings. (The last building constructed by Trump with his name on it is the Trump-SoHo hotel and condominium project, completed in 2007.) In public statements, Trump ...

"Edgar Hoover and James Jesus Angleton, where are you, now that we really need you?" - Is Trump The Manchurian Candidate, A Mole, Or The Kremlin’s “Useful Idiot”?

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"Edgar Hoover and James Jesus Angleton , where are you, now that we really need you? Hoover, the long-time FBI Director, and Angleton, the CIA’s legendary Director of Counterintelligence, were they alive today, might be digging at a furious pace to find out if GOP standard bearer Donald Trump could be a mole working in plain view for the Kremlin’s Vladimir Putin...  So maybe we’re back to the mole angle. Have Americans fathomed how far the Republican Party – the party of national security, the party of duty, honor, country, the party of Joe McCarthy and anti-Kremlin rhetoric– has traveled in this election?" Is Trump The Manchurian Candidate, A Mole, Or The Kremlin’s “Useful Idiot”? _____________________________ Is Trump The Manchurian Candidate, A Mole, Or The Kremlin’s “Useful Idiot”? Ex-CIA head: Trump 'face of authoritarian populism' in US | TheHill authoritarian populism - Google Search Trump Cannot Be President While Praising Putin: Former CIA...