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Trump's Russia Ties Are an Enduring Mystery

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  Post Link And that’s unlikely to change if Trump takes office on Jan. 20, 2025. Then-President Donald Trump (left) speaks on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Jan. 28, 2017.  Drew Angerer/Getty Images Trump's Russia Ties Are an Enduring Mystery Saturday November 2 nd , 2024  at  12:19 PM Comments on: The Enduring Mystery of Trump’s Relationship With Russia 1 Share With Donald Trump threatening to retake the U.S. presidency next week in the face of Russia’s ongoing aggression in Ukraine, it’s time to take stock of a deeply unsettling fact. After years of investigations by U.S. government bodies from the Justice Department to the FBI to Congress, the American public has no idea if Russian President Vladimir Putin has “something” on Trump—in other words, some compromising information about the would-be 47th president’s past, or what the Russians call  kompromat . Eight years after the FBI first began probing Trump’