FOLLLOW THE MONEY.

The day after that, at a White House press conference, Maggie Haberman from the New York Times asked Trump's press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, "Is [President Trump] open to having U.S. officials questioned by Russia?" Sergei Magnitsky, center, was murdered after documenting corruption in Putin's government ILLUSTRATION BY LINCOLN AGNEW FOR TIME A AS WE WATCH THE MURDEROUS CARnage that Putin has unleashed against innocent Ukrainians, we are all trying to understand his motivations. The day before, Putin alleged that my "business associates" and I had "earned over $1.5 billion in Russia", "never paid any taxes", and then, to get Trump's attention, gave "$400 million as a contribution to the campaign of Hillary Clinton." Roldugin introduced Putin to his wife; he was the godfather to Putin's firstborn daughter; and through the decades they had remained the closest of friends. [Extracted from the article]
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