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"Donald the Red": "the full story about Trump and Russia has yet to be told", “there’s a lot we don’t know...” - Trump's Russian connections - FT | "I know about Russia, but I know nothing about the inner workings of Russia. I have no businesses, I have no loans from Russia." - Trump

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Trump's Russian connections Sunday October 16 th , 2016  at  9:42 AM US News - Today, October 16th 9:19am Shared by  1  person The soviet years and yeltsin’s 'wild east' The Republican candidate’s links to Russia are a mix of  bling, business and bluster  spanning 30 years. The FT has compiled this account from a variety of sources, tracing Trump's fascination for Russia from its beginnings in Soviet times, through the Putin era to the US presidential campaign. Yuri Dubinin A first contact from Moscow In 1986 Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin sat next to Donald Trump at a New York lunch and they talked about Trump Tower. “One thing led to another, and now I’m talking about building a large luxury hotel across the street from the Kremlin in partnership with the Soviet government,” the tycoon recalled in his book Trump: The Art of the Deal. Trump flew to Moscow at Dubinin’s invitation to discuss the

Selected Posts - 10.15.16

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Selected Posts - 10.15.16   by noreply@blogger.com (Mike Nova) Saturday October 15 th , 2016  at  1:32 PM News Reviews And Opinions 1 Share 10.12.16 - News Reviews and Opinions: Trumpism: the vicissitudes of the phenomenon: "Trump continues to display the symptoms of narcissistic alexithymia..." - Donald Trump’s Sad, Lonely Life | "Trump’s has been a single-note campaign; that note is rage..." - Trumpism After Trump 10.11.16 - News Reviews and Opinions: Obama wants to go to Mars - Reading today's events 10.12.16 - News Reviews and Opinions: M.N.: Trump-Samson destroyed the GOP, alarmingly, tragically, destructively and self-destructively. The party will be reborn from this crisis and this bitter lesson. But he will not be able to destroy the country. This is the consolation. - The main news stories from the major sources; selected, compiled, and occasionally commented on by Mike Nova 10/15/2016 - Despi