Here’s what I’ve said from day one.
Look at the two personalities.
Putin - Always presents a tough guy image, former KGB thug, rules Russia like a dictator, the most common descriptive term I’ve heard is “he’s a bully”.
So what’s the last thing a bully wants to see? I know bullies quite well, I dealt with them in school daily...the last thing they want is someone who is willing to fight back. They greatly prefer someone half their size who is too weak to fight back, even if he wants to.
I finally had to knock some bozo on his ass in several different schools to get them to leave me alone. Talking didn’t work, negotiation was useless, warnings went in one ear and out the other. The only thing they listen to is brute force. Knock the guy on his ass then say ok NOW leave me alone...that’s the only thing that would work. That’s what Putin is. Except that being a politician, he will at least listen to negotiation.
Trump - Was in a military academy as a teenager, wouldn’t let the big guys pick on the little guy. The smallest guy in the unit was interviewed, he said that the bullies learned in a hurry “when Trump said leave me alone, he meant it”. Still standing up for the little guy today.
Textbook example of an alpha male personality, I can’t think of a better example. I don’t think he’s afraid of a human being in this world, says what he means and means what he says and will not back down from anyone.
Trump is the last thing Putin would want to see in the White House, someone who will stand up to him. It took me longer to type the first two sentences of this post than it did to realize that.
The only reason I can think of Putin would not want Hillary as prez is that from what I have heard, he can’t stand her. Other than that, she’s exactly what he WOULD want...dishonest, corrupt politician he can manipulate and possibly blackmail. He probably already has all the dirt on her he needs to keep her “in her place” to his way of thinking.
I have little doubt the day Trump announced, Putin ordered the KGB to bring him everything they could dig up, he already had it for Hillary. He knew Trump would stand up to him within a week, the last thing he wants to see, I’ll never buy into the idea that Putin would actually help Trump get elected. Ludicrous at best...
Russia has always tampered in our elections, but probably not to pick a candidate, more to stir up discontent, disseminate misinformation and undermine democracy. They do it all over the world. The idea that they would help Trump is ridiculous at best. If anything, they would help Hillary, who is already a known politician, and exactly what fits their agenda. Dishonest, corrupt, easily manipulated, enough skeletons in her political closet she’s easy to bribe or blackmail. Trump, not so much...
Well stated! That was my assessment as well.
I tried to keep an open mind reading the Mueller report. But it simply doesn't make sense, leaning so heavily on the Russian pro-Trump interference piece.
I conclude that Mueller selected his facts carefully in the report and lied through omission.