Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has some sort of financial influence over former President Trump.

In an interview with MSNBCā€™s ā€œInside with Jen Psaki,ā€ Pelosi said Putin is the ā€œrichest person in the worldā€ and has ā€œstiff competitionā€ to being named the most evil person in the world.

Pelosi asked ā€œwhat does he have on Donald Trump that heā€™d have to constantly be catering to Putin?ā€

Her comments came just after Trump doubled down on his criticism of NATO and said he would encourage Russia to attack U.S. allies who fail to reach the allianceā€™s defense spending goals. Trump has also declined to criticize Putin for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison last week.

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    7 months ago

    But the source is a person who has expertise being a major government figure for decades. You donā€™t have to like her or agree with her but her stock trading has zero impact on whether or not she is right about Putinā€™s financial influence over Trump.

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        The campaign was fined for incorrectly reporting their partial funding of opposition research as ā€œlegal services.ā€ That is 100% unrelated to how much of that opposition research was true.

        And it doesnā€™t matter whether I trust Pelosi or Hillary Clinton more, they arenā€™t disagreeing with each other so they can both be right or wrong independent of each other.

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      Hereā€™s a guy that thinks career politicians can be honest. These people are a fucking disease that can only be cured with term limits.