Former CIA director John Brennan tweeted-
Donald
Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the
threshold of “high crimes & misdemeanors.” It was nothing short of
treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the
pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots: Where are you???
Trumpis not a patriot. Trump only cares about Trump. Republicans who criticized his Helsinki
performance are beginning to see this. So have others
Pres. Trump can’t seem to make up his mind on whether Russia
intervened in the 2016 election. First
he said no, then corrected himself and seemed to say ‘yes,’ and now this. (He later changed his Helsinki statement to
state at least imply that Russia was guilty.)
“On Sunday, President Donald Trump tweeted this: "So President Obama knew about Russia before the
Election. Why didn't he do something about it? Why didn't he tell our campaign?
Because it is all a big hoax, that's why, and he thought Crooked Hillary was
going to win!!!" The message seemed
clear: The entire investigation into Russia's active interference in the 2016
election was a "hoax." Which would be somewhat odd, given that the
intelligence community unanimously concluded that Russia not only worked to
meddle in the election but did so to help Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton. But,
given Trump's repeated refusal to acknowledge that fact -- including while
standing next to Russian President Vladimir Putin last week in Helsinki,
Finland -- it all made a weird sort of sense.
Trump is "unstable, inept,
inexperienced, and also unethical," [Former CIA Director John Brennan said
in an interview with MSNBC.
I’ve been watching
politics and Presidents closely since LBJ.
I agree with the assessment.
ing to see what
constitutes a breaking point for the Trump crowd. They were fine with Trump's
ignorance, inconsistency and mendacity; his crazy conspiracy theories and
unhinged tweets; his vile attacks on women, war heroes, and the press; his
demonization of Mexicans and Muslims; his pussy-grabbing and general,
all-around loutishness; his kowtowing to Vladimir Putin, Rodrigo Duterte and
other loathsome dictators; his son's eagerness to collude with the Russian
government and his own attempts to obstruct justice by firing the FBI director.
The Trumpites excused all of this inexcusable conduct on the grounds that
"at least he fights."
True, he fights. But
what does he fight for? Not for conservative principles. He has
no principles. Trump is not pursuing an "America First" policy. He is
pursuing a "me first" policy. He will not fight for legislative
priorities such as health-care reform — a subject he does not understand
or care about — but he will fight to obstruct an investigation into his own
misconduct.
None of this should
be remotely surprising to anyone who has been awake for the past two years. Jeb
Bush accurately called Trump the "chaos candidate" and predicted that
he would be the "chaos president." This did not faze his fans for a
second. They wanted someone to come in and shake up Washington. Well, they got
what they wanted. Now we must all live with the calamitous consequences.
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