{"id":1354,"date":"2017-07-14T20:14:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T01:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2017-07-14T22:14:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T03:14:54","slug":"from-russia-without-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1354","title":{"rendered":"From Russia, Without Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coupling the recent revelations about Trump Jr&#8217;s meetings and The New Republic&#8217;s article on Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/143586\/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mafia money being laundered through Trump properties<\/a> &#8230; collusion may be the more flattering story of the events. The alternative is a broke businessman so desperate for a buck that he doesn&#8217;t care where the money comes from who essentially becomes the Russian mafia&#8217;s go-to patsy for laundering their money. A rube whose incredible ego led him to run for president. At which point the Russians realize they&#8217;ve got a stooge in the hand and unilaterally undertake to support his campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coupling the recent revelations about Trump Jr&#8217;s meetings and The New Republic&#8217;s article on Russian mafia money being laundered through Trump properties &#8230; collusion may be the more flattering story of the events. The alternative is a broke businessman so desperate for a buck that he doesn&#8217;t care where the money comes from who essentially &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-russiagate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}