Both the Ukraine scandal the Syria debacle have transpired because Trump took reckless and self-destructive actions that happened to follow the course of action Russia desired. jonathanchait writes
Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images “Pro-Kremlin proxy Vladimir Zhirinovskiy, leader of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, proclaimed just before the election that if President-elect Trump won, Russia would ‘drink champagne’ in anticipation of being able to advance its positions on Syria and Ukraine,” noted the U.S. intelligence community’s official assessment of Russian intervention in the presidential election.
From the American perspective, the Ukraine scandal is primarily about the president’s attempt to leverage his power over a vulnerable foreign country to gin up investigations of his domestic opponents. But from Ukraine’s end, the narrative looks a bit different. It is a story about restoring Russian influence over Ukraine’s political system.
Manafort is now in prison, but Rudy Giuilani appears to have taken on a successor role. He has collected half a million dollars from Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two shadowy figures with links to Russian organized crime. Parnas and Fruman may not be the ultimate source of Giuliani’s money; Reuters reports U.S. prosecutors charge an unidentified Russian businessman sent a million dollars to their accounts.
Trump had to turn over his Ukraine policy to an outside, Russian-paid lawyer because it repelled almost the entirety of his own administration’s foreign-policy staff. Trump’s refusal to support Kiev and release the military aid voted by Congress appalled and alarmed numerous White House advisers, many of whom saw the extortion play as not only misguided but outright criminal.
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