Reports keep surfacing of Donald Trump interactions with Russian President Putin and other high level Russians that have been ‘off the record’….
There wouldn’t be such a strong reaction to these episodes except that it is widely known that Donald Trump has done business with several Russian’s that included loans….In addition?….The Mueller and US Attorney for the Southern District of New York have uncovered NUMEROUS Russian/Trump campaign connections….
Why the Republican lawmakers keep alibing for Trump is a mystery…..
He doesn’t trust them….
They do NOT trust him….
Why Republican voters themselves seem to support Trump’s actions?
American’s on the whole are worried about their President’s actions on several things….
Republican lawmakers on Sunday sought to temper the impact of the latest bombshell reports involving President Trump and Russia, while their Democratic colleagues renewed calls to protect special counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation.
The responses came after both The New York Times and The Washington Post reported new details over the weekend involving allegations of Trump’s close ties with Moscow, sparking renewed concerns about the fate of Mueller’s probe.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on NBC criticized Washington, D.C.’s, focus on the Mueller investigation as out of touch with the rest of the country.
And Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a close ally of the president, raised doubts about some of the reporting’s accuracy.
The New York Times reported Fridaythat the FBI was so concerned about Trump’s firing of former bureau chief James Comey that it opened an inquiry into whether the president was working on behalf of Russian interests.
And The Washington Post reported on Saturday that Trump has kept details of his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin from top officials in his administration, including withholding notes from an interpreter.
The White House dismissed the reports as “inaccurate” and defended Trump’s record on Russia, while the president called the stories “insulting” and “ridiculous.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would not directly address The New York Times story, but in a Sunday interview called it “ludicrous” to consider Trump a national security threat.
Both parties on Sunday called for a closer look at Trump’s behavior toward Russia, with Democrats and Republicans both saying Trump’s actions speak for themselves. However, Democrats argue that Trump has been soft on Russia while Republicans believe the opposite….
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday floated the possibility of renewing his demand to subpoena the translator present during a July 2018 meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Last year, we sought to obtain the interpreter’s notes or testimony, from the private meeting between Trump and Putin,” Schiff tweeted. “The Republicans on our committee voted us down. Will they join us now?”….
The Congressional Republicans should became in choosing their words about Trump and Russia…
It would seem that we hardly know what the connections between Trump and Russia are….
Robert Mueller is seriously trying to find out….
And the extend of his findings may make some GOPer’s look stupid sometime in the future for trying to support Donald Trump…
Trump has met with Russian officials since 1987. It was after his first trip to Moscow that he first contemplated running for president. It is well within the realm of possibility that Russians used blackmail, bribes, or perhaps just simple flattery to help shape his thinking on world affairs.
It is hard to understand how else some of the idiosyncratic and bizarrely Russpohillic ideas he routinely spouts have found their way into Trump’s brain….
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The Times report tells us that collusion is only part of the story. The relationship between Trump and Putin did not merely rest on their mutual interest in the Trump campaign defeating Clinton, but indicates some deeper connection. From the very beginning of this story, pundits have underestimated the full extent of Trump’s ties to Russia and how much deeper the story might yet go. Now we already know Mueller is not merely looking into crimes, but trying to ascertain the foundational loyalties of the President of the United States….
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“Mueller really does know everything,” joked a former Intelligence Community (IC) senior official whom I’ve known for years. “The IC gave the Special Counsel everything we had that might be of relevance to their investigation, most of it came from NSA.” Which hardly surprises, since something like 80 percent of the actionable intelligence in the IC emanates from the NSA, the world’s most productive spy agency…..
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