The conservative Wall Street Journal is causing an internet uproar with its new report on Donald Trump allies who are cashing in on ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
The Journal’s piece ahead of the weekend, Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine, claims that, “The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.”
“For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy, hatched before Trump’s inauguration, to bypass the traditional U.S. national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat but as a land of bountiful opportunity, according to Western security officials,” the Wall Street Journal reported. “By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies.”
The report made waves immediately.
Former speechwriter to President George W. Bush, David Frum, called it a “devastating report on the real Trump-Russia deal: betray Ukraine in exchange for privileged business benefits for Trump insiders.”
Activist Garry Kasparov said, “As I said in my Halifax speech a few days before this damning WSJ report, this has always been personal business for Trump, not national interest.”
“It’s how Putin turned Russia into a mafia state and it’s been Trump’s goal from day one of his new unleashed admin,” he added Saturday.
Going further, he said, “And also as happened with Putin, politicians and pundits spend too much time looking for complicated motivations from ideology or psychology or blackmail. It’s money. It’s always money. They’re crooks. With immense power, but still crooks. Don’t overcomplicate things.”
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Ronald Brownstein chimed in, “If the betting markets did Pulitzer odds, this remarkably reported [WSJ] piece would be a comet.”
The post ‘Devastating’: Internet erupts over conservative outlet’s ‘damning’ report on Trump allies appeared first on Raw Story.
