Donald Trump’s former national security adviser says he was mystified by Vladimir Putin’s hold on his old boss. That’s mystifying.
In a new book, retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster relates the mystery he carried with him as he left the administration – one he confided to his wife in early 2018.
“After over a year in this job,” he told her, “I cannot understand [Vladimir] Putin’s hold on Trump.”
It sounds as if McMaster decided to play diplomatically dumb. There’s nothing mysterious about Putin’s hold on Trump at all.
As his careers in business and politics have demonstrated, Trump has no discernible beliefs or scruples. He approaches life as a series of transactions, guided exclusively by the interests of his bank account, his ego, or both. ….more
