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Buckeyeblue

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5. Sometimes I agree that Putin has something on Trump. Something really bad.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sun Apr 19, 2026, 12:17 AM

8 hrs ago

Other times I wonder if Putin hasn't promised Trump something. It would have to be money. That's all that Trump cares about.

I hope that we find out, so that we can someday make sense of this very chaotic and weird period that we are going through.

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