It’s been a few days since Donald Trump got his sit down in a room with his buddy Russian President Putin….
It has been an enjoyable time for Putin who went home and now can sit back and watch his ‘mark’ twist and turn carrying the water for him…
No one , except maybe Trump, Putin and Robert Mueller knows what the Russian President, and ex-KGB officer has on the American President…..But it just fits, no matter what that there IS something that has forced Trump to continue carrying the water for the Russian….
Putin’s effort has been so successful, it appears , that he has helped a NYC Real Estate guy become President, thus installing a asset that has converted almost an entire America political party to support him and at the same time get probably 30% of Americans to change their view of the Russian political leadership’s action….
Standing back?
American intelligence people have to be horrified at what seems to be something unthinkable….
An American President working as a set for the Russians….
Could this be the text book spy novel that has turned into a reality?
Has it been THAT easy for the Russians?
Here’s the latest…..
President Trump accused the news media in a tweet of pushing for a confrontation with Russia.
Said Trump: “The Fake News Media wants so badly to see a major confrontation with Russia, even a confrontation that could lead to war. They are pushing so recklessly hard and hate the fact that I’ll probably have a good relationship with Putin. We are doing MUCH better than any other country!”
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Time: “As the Mueller investigation unfolds in the coming weeks and months, expect the Kremlin and state media to repeatedly bring up this list of suspicious Americans and demand to know why the U.S. has not yet provided access to them. It will not actually address the charges made by the special counsel. But it may succeed in clouding an already complex investigation with a head-spinning barrage of claims and counterclaims. All the easier for the Russian President—and his American counterpart—to obscure the actual evidence.”
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A new Axios/Survey Monkey poll finds 79% of Republicans approve of President Trump’s performance during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin while just 18% disapprove.
”This poll foreshadows the coming national drama. Every piece of data, and virtually every public action of elected Republican officials, shows Trump will have overwhelming and probably unbreakable party support, regardless of what Robert Mueller finds with his Russia probe.”
A new CBS News poll finds 68% of Republicans approve of Trump’s performance with Putin.
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“Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir Putin of Russia had personally ordered complex cyberattacks to sway the 2016 American election,” the New York Times reports.
“The evidence included texts and emails from Russian military officers and information gleaned from a top-secret source close to Mr. Putin, who had described to the C.I.A. how the Kremlin decided to execute its campaign of hacking and disinformation.”
“Mr. Trump sounded grudgingly convinced, according to several people who attended the intelligence briefing. But ever since, Mr. Trump has tried to cloud the very clear findings that he received on Jan. 6, 2017, which his own intelligence leaders have unanimously endorsed.”
The above for Politicalwire….
Note….
While the media has focused on the above…..
It appears that quietly ?
The American Intelligence community has begun , or has been, going its own way to deal with the President…..
DNI Coats has stood his ground in backing his people’s view that the Russians ARE running operations against America….
The NSA and the US Cyber Command also has also moved to separate itself from Trump…..
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His own top intelligence brass recently warned “red lights” are blinking with regard to Moscow’s plans to again meddle in an American election, spy talk used only when a threat is imminent.
“The warning signs are there. The system is blinking. It is why I believe we are at a critical point,” Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said Friday during an event at the Hudson Institute in Washington.
U.S. intelligence leaders only refer to the “red lights” when matters are dire….
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I’ll add the FBI to the growing list of Executive Agencies in the Trump admin that disagree with their boss about the efforts of his buddy Russian President Putin to co-op the American political system….
FBI director says Russian influence efforts are ‘very active’
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday described Russian malign influence efforts to sow discord among the American public as “very active.”
Wray was asked to directly respond to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denials of Russian interference in the 2016 election during an appearance as the Aspen Security Forum. Wray described the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment of Russian meddling as sound, adding that Moscow “continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day…..
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Trump has turned to going after the media on day three after his Putin meeting in Helsinki….
This is NOT going away…..
And Trump seems to making things worst…
The translator for the Trump/Putin meeting will not be compelled to go before the House….
Putin deal to let Mueller talk to inducted Russian in exchange for letting the Russians talk to the former US Russian Amb is rejected after 24 hours of waffling by Trump’s WH…….