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Long and informative piece on the Koch brothers pulling back from this year's presidential race.

Koch allies say the brothers took tremendous interest in Bernie Sanders’ unlikely success — particularly his resonance with young voters who represent the future of the electorate — and drew stark conclusions about their own efforts. “Dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into elections doesn’t persuade enough people to achieve lasting change,” one Koch confidante says. “To achieve lasting change, the effort has to begin much earlier.”

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One angle I thought of recently is that Putin probably is sending Trump money one way or another to help prop up Trump's personal or business finances. This is entirely legal but politically dicey, if it comes out.

It doesn't help Trump's campaign directly but is equally helpful to Putin in buying influence with Trump.

It's probably at least one reason why Trump refuses to release his taxes.

All that said, were I in Trump's position I'd be making sure I cashed Putin's checks right away. If Trump loses, he stops being useful to Putin, and were I in Putin's position I'd stop payment immediately.