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Also from snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/russian-asbestos-trump_face/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/russian-asbestos-trump_fac... >Did a Russia

Also from snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/russian-asbestos-trump_face/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/russian-asbestos-trump_fac... >Did a Russian Asbestos Company Put Trump’s Face on Their Product? >A Russian asbestos producer shared a photograph of their product to social media with a seal of Donald Trump’s face and the text "Approved by Donald Trump”.

swebs 8y ago
They should probably also mention that all of the United States asbestos imports comes from Brazil. >All asbestos used in this country is imported. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the only form of asbestos currently imported into the United States is chrysotile, all of which originated from Brazil in 2017(USGS, 2018). USGS reports that in 2017, the United States imported approximately 300 metric tons of raw asbestos, the total of which they state is used in the chlor-alkali industry (USGS, 2018). In 2016, the United States imported approximately 702 metric tons of raw asbestos (USGS, 2018) https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4495888/Problem-Forumulations.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4495888/Problem-F... Page 238
- riahi 8y ago
  Brazil banned asbestos in the end of 2017. https://www.asbestos.com/news/2017/12/04/brazil-asbestos-ban-us-imports/ https://www.asbestos.com/news/2017/12/04/brazil-asbestos-ban...
- russelldc 8y ago
  Now that Brazil has banned asbestos, Russia is filling the market gap.
webXL 8y ago
Wow, is that not the single best photo summing up the current state of affairs?! Straight out of a James Bond movie. It's got pallets full of poison, red Russian labeling, the cartoonish president himself! Can it get any more sinister?? I thought for sure that it must have been 'shopped!