What the hell is really going on here?

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Trump's own NSA director says Russian interference in our elections is unchecked and likely to persist indefinitely, but the CIC hasn't ordered them to do anything about it:

(National Security Agency director, Adm. Mike Rogers), who was appointed by former President Barack Obama and is set to retire this spring, said Russia is attempting to undermine U.S. institutions and has not been deterred so far.

“My concern is I believe that President [Vladimir] Putin has clearly come to the conclusion there is little price to pay here and that therefore [he] can continue,” Rogers told the Senate panel. “Everything that as both director of NSA and what I see on the Cyber Command side leads me to believe that if we don’t change the dynamic here he is going to continue and 2016 won’t be viewed as something isolated. This is something that will be sustained over time.”

Rogers said the U.S. has not engaged in the same type of cyber operations being waged by Moscow, but he pushed back at Democrats' claims that the administration is “sitting back and waiting” to see what happens.

“Based on the authority that I have as a commander I have directed the national mission force to begin some specific work. I’d rather not publicly go into that, using the authorities that I retain as a commander of this mission,” he said.

Why is Trump “sitting back and waiting” to see what happens?

It's not strategy. This man couldn't care less about geopolitical gamesmanship, except where it directly benefits him or his personal interests. Even there Trump's not bright enough to make prescient moves on his own, and consider the way his own NSA director is essentially calling him out as a traitor.

Hell, over 90% of Congress already sent him legislation directing him to act, and he's hidden it away from America like a bad report card with a sloppily forged grade. What is he really trying to keep from happening?

One obvious reason would be his belief that keeping Russians creeping all over the next round of elections would produce the same trick that put a 2.8 million vote loser in the White House in 2016. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

There is, of course, no guarantee that the midterm results can be manipulated the same way, to achieve the same republican-affirming result. That makes the other possibility more probable, and more intriguing - that Russia actually holds something so vile, so incriminating, so humiliating on Trump, that he's scared out of his witless mind that Russia will release all of it the minute he retaliates.

It's not as if there haven't been numerous private meetings and phone calls between Putin and Trump for that threat to have been conveyed to the serial degenerate in the most direct and convincing terms.

Putin, release those tapes!

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1. Trump is being blackmailed by Putin

it has been obvious from the start

also, Trump could not handle not being re-elected, and he knows he will need Russia again

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3. it's becoming so clear

...much weirdness in his refusal to even call Putin out, much less do ANYTHING about the interference.

It's what I've always regarded as treasonous behavior. It's amazing how far the norms have shifted away from accountability and defense of our sovereignty, apparently, with the advancement of this man.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Trump won't admit russia spoiled the election, as a result he won't do anything about it.

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4. He thinks he won on his own merits.

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6. there's that

...he's psychologically incapable of disconnecting from his grandiose delusions.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. He may or may not believe it, but he sees admitting it as

Weakness and a loss.

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5. And he refused to impose sanction enacted by congress

Why this isn't still headline news I don't know.

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8. yep

...the silence on that is strange.

So much room being given this sociopath...