# A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537 "2020-11-14T00:09:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4855
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537/4855 "2022-03-23T23:26:41Z")
According to the Senate report on Russian interference, in 2017-2018 he was working with Russia to carve out an Autonomous Republican of Donbas in Southeastern Ukraine, part of the plan was getting Trump to wink and look the other way. I posted more about this over in P&E, including a link to an article about how all the Russian oligarchs are hanging out in Dubai these days to avoid sanctions. > [@Manafort's passport](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manaforts-passport/961570/8): > > I’m betting it’s the one that says The Secretary has determined that the applicant’s activities abroad are causing or likely to cause serious damage to the national security and foreign policy of the US. Manafort has been diligently working with Russia to help them subjugate Ukraine for decades. He was instrumental in rigging the Ukrainian election that put the Russian backed candidate Yanukovych into power, and jailing and persecuting his opponent afterwards. He had a huge tacky home in Ukrai… When I made that post, I forget to generate the non-paywalled link to that article. Here it is > **[How a Playground for the Rich Could Undermine Sanctions on Oligarchs...](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/us/russian-oligarchs-sanctions-dubai.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuomT1JKd6J17Vw1cRCfTTMQmqxCdw_PIxftm3iWka3DODm4TiPkORJKd4FzMbKwmYN8y0D2BT99adaQmQvduz-hZJAlhVgOho92EhJEBaW0TmL6EY1kXjdjLTKxqtnjjdHW4I-Nyg7fm4RiNPDS5RKLe0SA-IAszqI9uIA2hxSQPkv3AR7Jz34F7iOwzRcwvHUd2byiBufbsDh11KY_GOkmasl9qLrkfDTLDntec6KYCchFSCz_GTnB_5mU-4LBMKY9dffa_f1N7Jp2I0fhGAXdoLYypG5Q3W4PU8r5rurXJohWHo9Gk7Ee_-nA2BFBi5I73K0ARHQ&smid=url-share)** > > Allies of President Vladimir Putin, arriving on private jets and yachts, are still welcome in the U.A.E., which has yet to condemn the Ukraine invasion or enforce sanctions. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-perfectly-reasonable-amount-of-schadenfreude-about-things-happening-to-trump-his-enablers-part-1/925537)._