Do I think Donald Trump was cultivated and placed in the highest office of the land by the Russian Government to act as their covert agent and carefully further Russian interests as part of some sinister secret plot?
No, of course not. The Russians are far more competent than that. And even before the election, "careful," "covert," and "secret" were not words one associated with the no-impulse-control real estate flim-flam man named Donald Trump.
Now, do I think Donald Trump was cultivated and placed in the highest office of the land by the Russian Government to damage the workings of American politics, divide the United States, and tarnish our reputation at home and abroad?
Yes. Yes, I do.
(With enough nudge-and-wink to get Trump to think he was in on something big and profitable, but not so much that he could spill the beans, or think he was being manipulated, of course.)
At best, I think the Russians simply did their best to support him (and his nationalist plutocratic zaniness), never dreaming he'd actually be elected, but anticipating (correctly) that his very candidacy, with their assistance, would corrode the assumptions, axioms, and social restraints of American political discourse and American society. That he in fact won and has been able to carry on his destructive campaign of narcissism, corruption, nepotism, and blatant spitting in the face of restraint and self-control from inside the White House was an unexpected opportunity, one they have been delighted to sit back with their popcorn and vodka and watch with big grins on their faces.
Can this be proven in a court of law? Hard to say. Were he not President of the United States, I think federal prosecutors would definitely give it a go. We'll know more when the Mueller report comes out.
Can it be proven sufficiently to get the GOP in Congress to impeach? Unfortunately, we've gotten to the point where they've been so unquestionably supportive of Donald that to turn on him would probably be political suicide. I suspect that too many of them are hoping against hope that Trump won't make it through the 2020 election, one way or another, and they can laugh the experience off as a bad dream that netted them enough of their party goals that they can pretend it was all worth it. ("For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" — Mark 8:36)
Donald J. Trump on Twitter
“Lyin’ James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter S and his lover, agent Lisa Page, & more, all disgraced and/or fired and caught in the act. These are just some of the losers that tried to do a number on your President. Part of the Witch Hunt. Remember the “insurance policy?” This is it!”
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Ask the orange Muppet about his lover Roy Cohn! Roy installed his type of politic, right up the muppets hole. The entire orange Muppet show is a reboot of the failed Nixon regime…….with out the b grade looks of the Reagan yearssss, or was that Randolph Scott? No it was the b grade Reagan years………
Be careful what you say about the man GOD CHOSE TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF OUR COUNTRY, YOU PEOPLE REALLY SHOULD READ THE BIBLE YOU COULD LEARN SOMETHING MORE THAN WHAT YOU H A VE BIN TOLD BY YOUR LEADERS THAT ONLY KNOW SATIN. ITS GOD WHO RAISES UP PRESIDENTS AND KINGS AND AND ALL LEADERS OF COUNTRYS. AND IF HE CAN CREATE THIS UNIVERSE YOU BETTER BE CAREFUL WH A T YOU SAY ABOUT HIM OR WHAT HE DOES OR WHO HE CHOOSES TO CONTROL OUR COUNTRY ,
A mess of pottage indeed
Time for a remake of The Manchurian Candidate.
+Stan Pedzick Thus the title.
What people never seem to remember is that the person referred to in the title of that movie was not the one Lawrence Harvey played, but the hand-selected tool of the Chinese Communists, Senator John Yerkes Iselin.
+Al Pearson But that's a mook's game. If God chose Donald Trump to rule us, then he also chose Barack Obama, and George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton … and Richard Nixon … and Millard Fillmore … and James Buchanan. If it's God who raises up kings and rulers, then he raised up Hitler and Mussolini and Saddam Hussein and Idi Amin and Leopold of Belgium and George III and Robespierre and John Lackland and Nero and Caligula.
To suggest that to criticize any ruler is to speak against God seems … shortsighted.
What rhymes with Dump and should be flushed out with the other excreta
The problem here is:
Trump is talking in ENGLISH
But the democrats are listening in DUMB ASS.
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"Helped Putin destabilize the United States"
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I'll wager Dave Hill and I have read more of the Bible in a calender month than Al Pearson has read in his entire life…
+Simon B I think Al is a former preacher who now has a meth addiction and a broken caps lock key.