Susan Rice Sounds The Alarm On How Donald Trump’s Debts Could Risk U.S. Security
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Former U.S. national security adviser Susan Rice talked on Wednesday about the threat that could be posed to America’s security over the hundreds of millions of dollars that presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump owes in civil trial damages.
Rice told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell that Trump owes “some $500 million or more” and is struggling to meet the bond in his $464 million fraud ruling, so “you have to wonder where he’s going to get that money from.”
“In the event that [Trump] has to take that money from an individual or an entity, whether domestic or international, that individual or entity will potentially have real influence over him, and so that is of concern” if he returns to the White House, she added.
Rice also noted Trump’s “long history of foreign financial entanglements” and warned, “There’s just so many ways the stench of money from dubious places infuses his business enterprise, and so this would add more questions should that be the case going forward.”
But “the big picture is even beyond the foreign financial entanglements,” Rice said, recalling Trump’s frequent siding with Russian President Vladimir Putin, his praise of dictators and his threat to abandon America’s allies in the NATO military alliance.
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