Doubting the intelligence, Trump pursues Putin and leaves a Russian threat unchecked.

[elleng]

'In the final days before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, members of his inner circle pleaded with him to acknowledge publicly what U.S. intelligence agencies had already concluded — that Russia’s interference in the 2016 election was real.

Holding impromptu interventions in Trump’s 26th-floor corner office at Trump Tower, advisers — including Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and designated chief of staff, Reince Priebus — prodded the president-elect to accept the findings that the nation’s spy chiefs had personally presented to him on Jan. 6.

They sought to convince Trump that he could affirm the validity of the intelligence without diminishing his electoral win, according to three officials involved in the sessions. More important, they said that doing so was the only way to put the matter behind him politically and free him to pursue his goal of closer ties with Russian President Vladi­mir Putin.

“This was part of the normalization process,” one participant said. “There was a big effort to get him to be a standard president.”

But as aides persisted, Trump became agitated. He railed that the intelligence couldn’t be trusted and scoffed at the suggestion that his candidacy had been propelled by forces other than his own strategy, message and charisma.'>>>

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/donald-trump-pursues-vladimir-putin-russian-election-hacking/?hpid=hp_rhp-banner-low_trumprussia%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.91a9de1a722e

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. And Tillerson just taunted NK and is asking for war again.

[Irish_Dem]

2. So Trump's ego prevents him from acknowledging the truth.

He insists he won on his own merits, not because the Russians rigged the election. Which we now know is not true.

If he had lost, he would embrace the notion wholeheartedly.

Once again everything is viewed through the lens of his own self interest and ego.
This makes him dangerous.