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Though he's been silent about nearly everything recently, it's important to remember that Rex Tillerson's extremely close personal ties to Russia are supplemented by financial ties he forged in his (very recent) past career.
Mar 3, 2017Will Putin expose the failings of American democracy or will he inadvertently expose the strength of American democracy?
↩︎ The New Yorker
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross's damning connections to Russia are fairly conventional-seeming, in that they're all tied up in Russian-controlled Cypriot banks with difficult-to-establish (but almost certainly existing) connections to Russian intelligence services.
In case you haven't seen it, here's something slightly more fun: This tick-tock Times story of the Obama adminsitration breadcrumbing their evidence of communications between the Trump campaign and the Russians.
