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Bill Browder
As we rode through Washington, I still couldn’t believe what was happening. I was literally dodging Russians in US government buildings on Capitol Hill. What made this all the more outrageous was that these Russians weren’t working alone. They were being assisted by a cadre of sophisticated Western enablers. This angered me more than anything.
On the surface, it appeared that Trump was acting irrationally, but what I’ve learned over the years as an investor is that almost everyone behaves rationally. If someone does something that appears irrational, it just means you don’t have all the information.
Putin now had his man in the White House. It was going to be a long, and potentially dangerous, four years.
It was still early in the Trump presidency, and we were learning that whenever Trump was unhappy with the day’s news cycle, he would tweet something outrageous, knowing the media would drop everything and scramble toward the new shiny object. I hoped the press wouldn’t do that today.
As despicable as Putin and his regime’s behavior is, none of this can happen without the cooperation of Western enablers. Lawyers like John Moscow and Mark Cymrot, spin doctors like Glenn Simpson, politicians like Dana Rohrabacher, and executives like those at Danske Bank—these people, along with many others, lubricate the machine that allows Putin and his cronies to get away with their crimes.