Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has some sort of financial influence over former President Trump.

In an interview with MSNBCā€™s ā€œInside with Jen Psaki,ā€ Pelosi said Putin is the ā€œrichest person in the worldā€ and has ā€œstiff competitionā€ to being named the most evil person in the world.

Pelosi asked ā€œwhat does he have on Donald Trump that heā€™d have to constantly be catering to Putin?ā€

Her comments came just after Trump doubled down on his criticism of NATO and said he would encourage Russia to attack U.S. allies who fail to reach the allianceā€™s defense spending goals. Trump has also declined to criticize Putin for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison last week.

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    I have no reason to think sheā€™s wrong here, but I also think people shouldnā€™t be ā€œsuggestingā€ and ā€œhinting atā€ these things. Instead, people should present the evidence to the prosecutors and let the man go to prison. You donā€™t need any media circus for this to happen.

    But then again, I guess everything is a presidential race now.

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      The problem is time. Trump doesnā€™t need any more criminal charges to send him to jail, he just needs the courts to finish doing their job, which takes time.

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      Did I slide to a dimension where trump hasnā€™t spent most of his adult life in business with Russian oligarchs? Is your response to hearing Pelosiā€™s lucid musings anything other than ā€œno titty fucking shit Sherlockā€? Did trump seriously not have a giant money laundering casino for Russians named the Taj Mahal here???

      I am going to enjoy this reality. šŸ˜Š Checks Wikipedia šŸ™„ Oh, nvm. I forgot that I already live in the dimension where a preponderance of evidence isnā€™t enough to establish a preponderance of evidence. My bad.

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      She is probably right, but she also likes to accuse anyone who disagrees with her of being a Putin shill so they should find someone with better credibility.