MonkeysUncleByMarriage posted:We have a sitting (well tweeting) President who has been very overt in his praise of Putin and Russia and has more ties to Russia than Bobby Cox to the Atlanta Braves, but he employs smoke n mirrors about a false story about Clinton and a story about Podesta having 75,000 shares of a company... God Bless... I will admit, he is good at distracting his base. But in fairness, his base isn't all that bright.
Let's see, the politically connected Podesta has a hUGE investment in a company with a hUGE investment from a Russian state controlled investment firm:
The CEO of Rusnano is appointed by the Decree of the President of Russia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusnano
Also John Podesta is the co-founder of the Podesta Group which is currently going to bat for Russia's largest bank to end sanctions on Russia:
They also represent the interests of Russia's largest financial institution Sberbank of Russia, which controls approximately 30 percent of Russian banking assets.[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podesta_Group
Nope, nothing to worry about; no there, there. Lets all get hot and bothered about Trump and crew trying to get a working relationship with a country with thousands of nukes and a second rate conventional military while we have a third rate military post Ol'bama entitlement spending and the rest of NATO abysmally worse than the US for the same reason squared.