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What has been most exposed is how avaricious they are, and how collectively stupid they are. I think if you added up their IQs, you might get an average IQ. Putin has gotten everything he wants.

A great deal of the value of the Trump "brand" is going to be destroyed after he leaves office. Any deal he ever made depended on the participants victims not knowing exactly what he did to past victims. A conman can't operate if everybody knows what he is doing.

But no, Putin has not gotten what he desires most of all: The Magnitsky Act sanctions lifted. This act could be applied to Putin, who keeps most of his vast wealth invested in the West, and destroy his ability to protect his cronies who do the same. That threatens both his wealth and his political power.

Trump made some moves toward this end in the beginning of his term, but now his hands are tied by Congress.