Talking Points Memo outlines links between Putin’s Russia and Donald Trump: Though we’ve previously noted pieces reporting the links between Russia and members of Donald Trump’s campaign, Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall has collated all of the questionable links that Donald Trump, his organization and his campaign has to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Trump has been blackballed by all major US banks… He has steadied and rebuilt his financial empire with a heavy reliance on capital from Russia… Trump’s foreign policy advisor on Russia and Europe is Carter Page, a man… who has deep and continuing financial and employment ties to Gazprom… The Trump Camp was totally indifferent to the [writing of the Republican party’s] platform… With one big exception… changing the party platform on assistance to Ukraine against Russian military operations in eastern Ukraine… This does not mean Trump is controlled by or in the pay of Russia or Putin… But it is certainly no coincidence.” (Read Trump & Putin. Yes, it’s really a thing)