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CajunBlazer

(5,648 posts)
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 12:00 AM Mar 2017

Declaring Their Innocence while Acting Guilty

Let’s go out on long, thin, brittle limb for a moment and assume that no one associated with Trump’s campaign or his transition team was guilty of conspiring with the Russians as they attempted to undermine our electoral process. Let’s further test the strength of that fragile limb by assuming that there was nothing treasonous in Trump’s embracement of the known adversary of our way of life who rules Russia with an iron fist. Of course to do all of that we would have assume that everything we have learned about a myriad of connections and communications between Trump staffers and Russian agents while hacked emails were leaked, an anti-Russian plank of the Republican campaign platform was softened, and President Obama’s sanctions were being levied were simply unlikely coincidences. However, if we go out on that long, thin, brittle limb, one question stands out like bright neon sign in the dark wilderness – why are Trump and his minions acting like they are guilty as hell?

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Declaring Innocence while Acting Guilty

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Declaring Their Innocence while Acting Guilty (Original Post) CajunBlazer Mar 2017 OP
Well done, Cajun. Well done! hedda_foil Mar 2017 #1
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