Donald Trump and Russia: a web that grows more tangled all the time

[ABX]

So the Clintons sold out to China and the Trumps sold out to Russia. Do you ever feel we are just pawns on the geopolitical stage- not leaders.

A key figure at the Republican national convention where Donald Trump was nominated for president has strong business ties with Ukraine, the Guardian has learned.

The party platform, written at the convention in Cleveland last week, removed references to arming Ukraine in its fight against pro-Russia rebels, who have received material support from the Kremlin. Trump’s links to Russia are under scrutiny after a hack of Democratic national committee emails, allegedly by Russian agents.

The coordinator of the Washington diplomatic corps for the Republicans in Cleveland was Frank Mermoud, a former state department official involved in business ventures in Ukraine via Cub Energy, a Black Sea-focused oil and gas company of which he is a director. He is also on the board of the US Ukraine Business Council......

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/30/donald-trump-paul-manafort-ukraine-russia-putin-ties?CMP=share_btn_fb

[sinkspur]

Reminder: Russia did this to a pro-Western presidential candidate in Ukraine. Paul Manafort worked for the other guy

[TomSea]

The ties in the excerpt are largely Ukrainian at that.