Very comforting that the US intelligence services have chosen to withhold information, both facts and methods, from President Trump. Some US assets remain safe.
The facts are so obvious. There is a Russian connection to the Trump campaign and administration.
Then there are all the pro-Russian comments by Trump while he simultaneously severely criticized and dismissed the US intelligence services.
And today, Trump called the most respected news media of the country - NY Times and Washington Post - fake news. If not by name, he referred to media that ruined Flynn. So of course he meant those two newspapers. He blamed the press for Flynn being treated so badly. And he blamed the democrats for Flynn's problems because they ran such a bad campaign - not that that comment makes an iota of sense. .But Trump asked for Flynn's resignation.
Well, Trump knew about Flynn's transgressions weeks before he asked for the resignation and only asked when the press brought the issue to light. We can only presume Trump would have kept Flynn heading the national security community for however long Trump felt like it. Clearly, Trump didn't mind that Flynn had Russian connections.
Why? As I keep writing, we will never know until Trump's taxes and financial holdings are revealed.
When asked by a reporter - Israeli, I think - about anti-Semitism on the increase in the US, Trump answered by reminding him of his large Electoral College win and that he had Jewish friends and family. Huh?
What is going on with Trump's thought processes. Is it his ego? Or is it even worse - a more severe form of mental disturbance?
A week or so ago, the following would have been a story. Now, it's small potatoes. Jared Kushner's brother is arranging to buy the Miami Marlins baseball team. It is under discussion (or already finalized? I'm not sure) n that the Trump administration is making the current Marlins owner Ambassador to Paris. Quid pro quo to a new level, but small potatoes compared to the Russia story.
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