Michelle Goldberg declared on ABC’s This Week that “to believe that the president isn’t compromised requires such a leap of faith.” The New York Times columnist called Donald Trump “a con man, a third tier failed businessman whose fortunes were rescued by Russian oligarchs” and contended “he became president with the direct intervention of Putin.” So now Putin is Trump’s “handler, his hero or his co-conspirator.” She concluded Trump’s loyalty lies with Putin “as opposed to lying with the American people.”
Goldberg during the roundtable on the July 22 This Week on ABC:
“I think that increasingly to believe that the president isn’t compromised requires such a leap of faith, that requires so many coincidences and kind of inexplicable behavioral choices. I think that the truth is probably what is right in front of us, which is that Donald Trump was a kind of a con man, a third tier failed businessman whose fortunes were rescued by Russian oligarchs. He presented himself as a kind of titan of industry, which everybody who knows anything about him knew was ridiculous. He became president with the direct intervention of Putin. He sees his fortunes as inseparable from Putin’s. We don’t know I think if Putin is his handler, his hero or his co-conspirator, but that’s obviously where his loyalty lies as opposed to lying with the American people.”
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