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Donald Trump's master in Moscow
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/12/13/donald-trump-master-moscow/dA7GBJ4rRBqcCCDXCiXNlK/story.html?event=event25By Renée Graham December 13, 2016
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Now with the CIAs damning confirmation, Trumps disparagement of the intelligence agency, and his refusal to condemn Russia, this is a harsh litmus test for both political parties, as well as ordinary Americans, to see how they will push back against Trumps mendacity, misdirection, and disregard for the rule of law.
While Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said he supports investigations into possible Russian cyberattacks, he doesnt believe the matter warrants a special select committee like the one that spent years investigating Clinton and her role in the Benghazi tragedy. (Now that Clinton, the partisan committees main target, has been vanquished, it has been quietly disbanded. It achieved nothing beyond knee-capping Clinton during her presidential run.) For those in the GOP still undecided, perhaps they should pretend that foreign cyberattacks tried to grease the wheels to the White House for Clinton. And helped her set up her private e-mail server. In Benghazi.
This is also a moment of truth for Democrats, who need to stop bringing paper knives to gunfights. Stop pretending there is common ground to be found with Trump, who will huff, belittle, and bully Democrats demanding answers about his unsavory ties to Russia. Hell dash off exclamation point-laden 3 a.m. tweetstorms. With so much at stake, those Twitter tantrums cant matter. The Democrats only concern must be uncovering the truth about what happened during the 2016 campaign.
So far, public outrage about the CIAs findings has been alarmingly muted. In many ways, this is a matter too important to be left only to politicians. Ordinary citizens must agitate and pressure their representatives to conduct a full, thorough, bipartisan investigation. They must text, tweet, and take to the streets, if necessary. This is not business as usual. This is nothing less than a referendum on American resolve in the face of an unparalleled crisis.
Trumps presidency has yet to begin, but is already proving more problematic than even his greatest skeptics could have imagined. In five weeks, an oligarch-in-chief aspirant will become the 45th president of the United States. If we opt for inaction now, how quickly will Trump dangerously compromise this nation to appease his master in Moscow?
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Donald Trump's master in Moscow (Original Post)
swag
Dec 2016
OP
Exactly on point. Agent Orange has probably already invited Putin to a state dinner.
lagomorph777
Dec 2016
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)1. Exactly on point. Agent Orange has probably already invited Putin to a state dinner.
This is not normal.
demon in basement
(72 posts)2. DURec!
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)3. Trump is Putin's hand picked Neville Chamberlain