Posted on 07/16/2018 5:15:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Trump faces political and legal jeopardy from the Justice Department investigation of his 2016 campaign and Russia.
Against that backdrop, comments that Republican Sen. Ben Sasse called “bizarre” make sense: Trump spoke most emphatically in discrediting the Mueller investigation.
Former CIA Director John Brennan condemned Trump’s words as “nothing short of treasonous.” Others, in less provocative terms, joined in harsh denunciations.
President Trump’s stunning news conference with Vladimir Putin becomes understandable once you recognize that he was advancing his personal interests, not those of the United States.
Trump faces political and legal jeopardy from the Justice Department investigation of his 2016 campaign and Russia. His former campaign chief sits in jail. His former national security advisor has plead guilty to a felony and become a cooperating witness for special counsel Robert Mueller. Long dependent on Russian money in his businesses, Trump has balked at answering questions from prosecutors himself.
Against that backdrop, comments that Republican Sen. Ben Sasse called “bizarre” make sense. Trump spoke most emphatically in discrediting the Mueller investigation.
American intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia interfered in 2016 to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. “I don’t see any reason why” Russia would have done so, Trump said, expressing confidence in Putin and noting the former KGB agent’s “extremely strong and powerful” denial.
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And my trust too.
I don’t buy much of anything that comes to me via the mainstream media. Trump usually does a great job representing the USA when meeting with foreign leaders. The approach he usually takes is “You are screwing the USA over and it’s time for that to stop”
This time, he was telling the foreign leader “THE US intelligence services are screwing me over”, which is true, actually, however, it rubs me the wrong way to say this at an overseas news conference, with another foreign leader present. The basic idea is, we expect our leaders not to air the US’s dirty laundry overseas at a press conference attended by a foreign leader. Thats all I am saying.
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