Posted on 07/16/2018 1:55:38 PM PDT by WWII_Historian
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Putin made his first mistake in 2013 when he did not permit Trump to build a hotel in Russia. He made his second mistake in 2016 when he did not respond to a letter from Trump's lawyer about the assistance in the building of the same Trump Tower in Moscow. There was a message sent to the public e-mail address of the Putin’s spokesman, and it received no answer.
Of course, we've known for a long time that not responding to business letters is a part of modern Russian culture, but Trump is used to an entirely different treatment. (By the way, if you believe the conspiracy theorists, Trump is Putin's puppet, and therefore it is utterly unclear why Trump had to contact Putin via an open communication channel, and why he used intermediaries).
The third, final blunder Putin made, was while trying to insert kompromat (i.e., dirt) fabricated by Russian intelligence on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump at the height of the 2016 election campaign. We all know that the attempt to foist dirt on Hillary through Trump's campaign had failed because Jared Kushner somehow smelled the rat (remember the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya?)
However, the dirt on Trump was not only foisted, but even sold. Russian intelligence managed to sell a "Russian dossier" to Hillary Clinton's campaign, and get paid by her for this fake. More precisely, Russians got only part of the money. A considerable part of the money was put into the pockets of mediators – a former resident of British intelligence in Moscow Richard Steele, opposition research firm Fusion GPS, and the law firm Perkins Coie LLP.
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