You'd think Mueller would have discovered this after almost two years of investigation if there was something to it.
It's very possible that the intelligence community discovered during the campaign that Trump was a compromised Russian asset, and that that was what led to the Mueller investigation being launched in the first place.
Imagine for a moment that Trump is actually a Russian asset, whether because of sexual or real estate dalliances making him manipulable, and that that fact had been confirmed sometime during the Trump presidency. What do you think would happen next? An announcement of the same and an arrest of Trump? Aren't we told that you can't bring criminal charges against a sitting president? If so, would America then be expected to sit for two more years of Putin pulling Trump's strings.
My guess is that it is reasonably likely that a decision would be made that this information can never be released to the public or press. I don't take the charges that a coup was contemplated (or still is) by the intelligence community seriously yet, but if there is validity to them, what else could possibly be the motive, unless we include the equally problematic possibility that it can be shown that Trump and the Russians stole the election and that Trump is not the legitimate president of the US.
I'm not saying that this has occurred (nor that it hasn't), just asking what we think the intelligence community's reaction would be - what if anything they would do about informing the American people or could do to correct the problem.
Once again, I think that they are very likely to consider such information too toxic for public consumption, and decide to not make any such announcement given that there seems to be no constitutional provision for such a possibility. Trump would sit in the White House as its known illegitimate occupant for two more years.What would become of America then, both at home and on the world stage?
CNN is blatantly patrisan.
I don't see how you can say that. Sure, they report most of Trump's lies and suspect entanglements, but they also report every time he tells the truth, commits acts of heroism and courage, is kind or tolerant, promotes basic American principles like a free press or a divided government. Or are you aware of any acts of great compassion or courage that Trump has committed that CNN failed to report?
The proper way to watch cable news like CNN is to separate the factual claims from the editorializing by the talking heads, fact check the former if important and disregard the latter, instead coming to one's own opinions. I let my PVR accumulate an hour or two worth of their coverage, then watch it mostly in fast forward mode, reading the banners and stopping for film clips while ignoring the talking head commentary. One can get through two hours of coverage in about ten minutes that way, and miss nothing of value.
The ‘Russian agent’ story is overblown. When anyone says there’s evidence Trump ‘colluded’ with Russia, asking them how will get you something along the lines of ‘Russia took out ads for Trump’, or possibly mentions that Trump or his family did business with other rich guys who happen to be Russian
Not this time. For starters, we have the Steele dossier, much of which has been confirmed, none discredited to my knowledge, and which suggested that the Russians had such
Trump's foreign policy, for example, is what we would expect Putin's to be - ease sanctions on Russia, withdraw America from the Iranian arms treaty, insult American allies, withdraw troops in Syria, cozy up to dictators like Putin, Kim Jong Un and the Saudi prince, foment xenophobia and racism at home, arrange frequent secret meetings with Putin in which no member of the intelligence community or State department were invited and for which no records are known to exist, the hiring by the Trump campaign of a seemingly endless litany of high level lieutenants with Russian connections, refuse to spend the funds earmarked for preventing future election tampering, and now talk of the US leaving the UN.
That's a huge win for Putin, whatever his level of involvement in making all of that come to pass. I doubt that he could have accomplished more in his own interest and against the interests of the American people if he were the American president himself rather than just his puppet master.
My question for you: Why does your list of suspicious circumstances suggesting a Trump-Russia connection look so different from mine? Yours seems to be limited to Russian ads and Trump business dealings, items I didn't see fit to even mention.
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