Comments on: Putin’s Puppet: Trump Sells Out America

By: Wil

Wil — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:34:21 +0000

CNN)For as long as history remembers Donald Trump, it will be a day that will live in infamy.

The President’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday is already one of the most notorious moments in the tortured relations between Washington and Moscow.

Trump’s humiliation is taking its place alongside John Kennedy’s bruising at the hands of Nikita Khrushchev, and George W. Bush staring into Putin’s eyes and getting a sense of his soul.

Like those moments in US-Russia summit lore, the events that unfolded Monday are likely to have significant and unpredictable political and geopolitical reverberations in the United States and around the world.

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:57:15 +0000

National Review Reader:
It’s fascinating the degree to which Rich Lowry and other Trump apologists can rationalize his flagrant misconduct at the same time they try to preserve a shred of honor by criticizing it.

Trump isn’t defensive about Russian interference in the election because it casts doubt on his legitimacy. He’s defensive about it because he is guilty of abating that interference and he doesn’t want to get thrown out of office for it. He isn’t protective of Russia’s interests because he is sympathetic to the argument that it is encircled. He’s protective of Russia’s interests because he is beholden to Putin and probably subject to blackmail having to do with both personal and financial wrongdoing as well.

It’s long past time for Trump’s apologists to wake up and smell the sewer. Trump is a Russian intelligence asset, that is an unprecedented national security disaster and the GOP is entirely responsible for it. […]

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:56:10 +0000

National Review Reader:
We cannot have a president who conducts foreign policy on the basis of his personal ego sensitivities. Trump, who has a problem evaluating any facts other than through the filter of his own self interest, has now stated to the world that he will accept Putin’s self-serving denials of attempted interference in our election in preference to the findings of his own country’s security and Congressional investigators. He quite obviously does this not based on the facts or on American interests, but because he thinks Putin’s unsupported views makes him – Trump – personally look better.

I think he has misjudged the American people. Trump apparently thought they would elect him and support him enthusiastically to promote the “GREATNESS” of Donald Trump. America now knows that, whatever Trump’s rehetoric and whatever he might do consistent with his personal interest that also benefits the country, his entire existence is devoted only to promoting D J Trump. If his personal interests conflict with America’s, if he has to make America look stupid and sacrifice its interests because he thinks this makes THE DONALD look better, it is no contest.

Trump has now turned me from a reluctant defender to one who thinks we should look for opportunities for impeachment. […]

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:46:28 +0000

In reply to Mr.BD.

“We have a traitor in the White House and it is up to the Repubs to bring him down.”

Not gonna happen BD because Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan and the rest of that sorry lot are even bigger cowards then Trump. If John McCain wasn’t fighting for his life he might..MIGHT…have been the One Repub with the Courage to lead the charge in bringing down Trump. But McCain is fighting for his life so that leaves absolutely no one.

By: Mr.BD

Mr.BD — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 15:18:10 +0000

We have a traitor in the White House and it is up to the Repubs to bring him down. This is not the person that should be picking a Supreme Court justice let alone have the nuclear codes. His whole meeting with Putin was a embarrassment and now everybody sees him for what he really is.