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Any American business thinking about jumping into the Russian market is playing Russian roulette—except every chamber’s loaded. Putin’s already made it clear he’ll jail Americans whenever it suits him, and yet Trump seems determined to push U.S. interests into that trap.\n\nWhich brings me back to the bigger question—what exactly does Putin have on Trump? I get that Trump’s got the moral compass of a reptile hunting for its next meal, but even his own former foreign policy advisors—Bolton, Tillerson, Kelly—have all admitted they can’t quite explain his deference to Putin. I’m not one for conspiracy theories, but damn, at what point do we stop pretending this isn’t deeply suspicious?

It’s suspicious that Trump’s is giving the SOTU address on the same day as he abrogates our commitments to Ukraine and instigates an illogical tariff war against our friends Canada and Mexico.

Trump is failing to simply deport illegals in all the hotels in New York. How easy can it be. They are all in the hotels and buses. Suspicious.