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By Eric Levitz
Every American intelligence agency believes that Russia tried to subvert our countrys democratic process in 2016. Presumably, so do Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner, seeing as they .. tried to participate in that subversion ...
Virtually every member of Congress believes that the Kremlins attempt to compromise our election merits retaliatory sanctions. But the Trump White House apparently thinks that the best way to prevent Russia from meddling in our elections again is to make sure that Moscow suffers no lasting punishment for its previous interference. Last December, the Obama administration seized two Russian diplomatic compounds in retaliation for those efforts. Trump has, reportedly, been trying to find a way to give those back since his very first days in office.
On Thursday, Jake Tapper asked the White Houses senior cable news surrogate Sebastian Gorka to explain the administrations reasoning.
We want to give collaboration and cooperation a chance, Gorka explained. The fact is we may not share the same philosophy, we may not share the same type of statesman view of the world but the fact is there are some issues of common concern ...
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/trump-may-lift-russia-sanctions-to-give-cooperation-a-chance.html
Quid pro quo
SHRED
(28,136 posts)My apologies to real wolves.
Ezior
(505 posts)Their collaboration, cooperation and collusion (CCC) was quite successful. And yeah, I'm sure there are some issues of common concern for Gorka, like Muslims (I hope they are not trying to find a final solution), "religious freedom," and gay people.
So I'm sure they are already trying to find a way to keep that CCC up for 2018, 2020 and beyond.
It's time to get those traitors out of the WH.