But it's surely not a case of Ron Hopeful rooting around for something to make Hillary Clinton look less bad? The investigation is now about the rule of law.
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Good last paragraph from the Globe and Mail's editorial on this:
"We hope the darkest speculation about Mr. Trump and Russia proves false, and that he is not acting at the country’s behest because he has somehow been compromised. The Manchurian Candidate theory is far from proven and still seems outlandish in some ways.
But looked at another way, if the darkest speculation were true, you would expect Mr. Trump to act roughly the way he did in Helsinki."
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Here are the patriotic Republican Party in Kansas this week. The burning issue is an artwork at a university, which is based on the US flag and they deem it disrespectful.
https://www.snopes.com/ap/2018/07/14...emoval-museum/
Kris Kobach, who drives around in a jeep covered in American flag designs, has kept quiet about Trump's performance yesterday.
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U.S. intelligence agencies have confirmed Russia’s actions, and the evidence is plentiful. Today’s summit in Helsinki was an opportunity to forcefully address this growing threat directly with President Putin. I am dismayed that we did not see that.
2:08 pm - 16 Jul 2018
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So, yesterday was particularly scandalous - as far as I can tell - because Trump said that he trusts Putin's word ahead of trusting his own national security apparatus. Which would be an out there position for a conspiranoid nutter.
But for the President of the US, it's outrageous. He basically shouldn't be making any national security decisions if he can't trust the advice he's getting from his own team. He either has to replace the CIA, NSA and the rest, or be making decisions based on stuff he doesn't believe.
It's a disastrous position.
As for Russia - I know some on the left are using it as an "excuse" for Clinton's campaign, as a way of explaining Trump's win; and some think it's the way to bring down Trump. But it's a fairly big deal on its own. There's a reason that Mueller is investigating outside attempts to subvert US democracy. Sure, Republicans have been subverting US democracy through borderline-legal methods for ages, but that's internal and borderline-legal. Having an external power doing it suggests a different national security threat. Whether you discover Trump was directly involved or just an unwitting beneficiary, it has to be tested properly. And Trump's comments yesterday certainly beg the question of why he trusts Putin ahead of his own appointees at the CIA.
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I think that beyond Putin having something on him, trump is deeply ignorant of how things work. To his mind, everything is on par with a real estate deal. He thinks of no consequences for the country or for the world at large. He is incapable of comprehending the complexities of being a head of state. That's why he prefers the autocracy route--not as much thinking involved. And that's why we're fucked.
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Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View PostSo, yesterday was particularly scandalous - as far as I can tell - because Trump said that he trusts Putin's word ahead of trusting his own national security apparatus. Which would be an out there position for a conspiranoid nutter.
But for the President of the US, it's outrageous. He basically shouldn't be making any national security decisions if he can't trust the advice he's getting from his own team. He either has to replace the CIA, NSA and the rest, or be making decisions based on stuff he doesn't believe.
It's a disastrous position.
As for Russia - I know some on the left are using it as an "excuse" for Clinton's campaign, as a way of explaining Trump's win; and some think it's the way to bring down Trump. But it's a fairly big deal on its own. There's a reason that Mueller is investigating outside attempts to subvert US democracy. Sure, Republicans have been subverting US democracy through borderline-legal methods for ages, but that's internal and borderline-legal. Having an external power doing it suggests a different national security threat. Whether you discover Trump was directly involved or just an unwitting beneficiary, it has to be tested properly. And Trump's comments yesterday certainly beg the question of why he trusts Putin ahead of his own appointees at the CIA.
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Bannon turns into a bully as soon as a presenter challenges him. His voice is also higher pitched than I had anticipated, sort of Ned Flanders-ish:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/m...-a8448251.html
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Mueller asks for immunity for the Manafort trial.
https://twitter.com/tom_winter/status/1019296274225553408
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Meanwhile in Scotland.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politi...isit-1-4770069
Donald Trump’s Turnberry firm was paid more than £50,000 by his own government to cover the accommodation bill for his weekend stay at his loss-making resort, The Scotsman can reveal. US federal government spending records seen by this newspaper show a series of payments worth a total of £52,477 were made by the State Department to SLC Turnberry Limited, the company behind the South Ayrshire hotel and golf course.
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