“In 2016, the Russian government engaged in an elaborate plot to interfere in an American election and undermine our democracy. Russia employed the same tactics it has used to influence elections around the world, from France and Germany to Ukraine, Montenegro, and beyond. Putin’s regime launched cyberattacks and spread disinformation with the goal of sowing chaos and weakening faith in our institutions. And while we have no evidence that these efforts affected the outcome of our election, I fear they succeeded in fueling political discord and dividing us from one another.
“The latest attacks on the FBI and Department of Justice serve no American interests – no party’s, no president’s, only Putin’s. The American people deserve to know all of the facts surrounding Russia’s ongoing efforts to subvert our democracy, which is why Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation must proceed unimpeded. Our nation’s elected officials, including the president, must stop looking at this investigation through the warped lens of politics and manufacturing partisan sideshows. If we continue to undermine our own rule of law, we are doing Putin’s job for him.”
----Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) (1)
Indeed, the Russians are suspected of being behind not only the Brexit movement in Britain, La Pen's fascist party in France, nationalist parties in Germany, but also nascent secessionist movements in the United States. From the campaign to have Alaska declare independence and, perhaps rejoin Russia, to the online petition campaigns to have California and Texas secede from the union, the Russians have been doing their utmost to sow discord not only within the international community but within the very confines of the United States as well. McCain knows from whence he speaks. He has deep ties to the defense and intelligence communities and was the one member of Congress that Steele felt he could trust with the information that he had garnered from his intelligence network in Russia and Eastern Europe.
McCain knows the scope of this threat and, I suspect, he knows that Disgustus is guilty. Nevertheless we have seen the governing political party become nothing but lapdogs, justifying and enabling what can only be described as a clear and present danger.
Let us be clear about this. Not only did Disgustus openly invite the Russians to illegally hack emails and welcome their influence, but upon taking office one of the first acts of the administration was to eliminate entirely the funding for the only federal agency charged with protecting the cyber integrity of our electoral process, an overt action that virtually insured that nothing was going to be done and put our electoral system at further risk. Here we have an entire political party openly colluding with a declared foreign adversary to subvert the electoral system of this republic and now they are about the business of brazenly doing everything they can to shut down the investigations into their perfidy.
The Rescumlicans will do anything to stop us from revealing the truth. No act is beneath them. They have sowed discord and suspicion, destroyed the integrity of congressional oversight committees, created antipathy toward our law enforcement agencies and destroyed whatever lingering faith the public has in our representatives in Washington.
In an opinion published in “The New York Times”, Thomas Edsall wrote:
“Trump is a political weapon of mass self-destruction for American democracy — for its norms, for its morality, for sheer human decency,” Henry Aaron, a senior fellow at Brookings, wrote by email:
So if Putin backed him, and if he did it to damage the United States, then he dropped one extremely smart bomb in the middle of Washington.”' (2)Yes, Br'er Putin knew precisely what he was doing when he fashioned this 'tar baby' called Donald Trump and thrust him before the American people. Like Br'er Rabbit, the country just couldn't leave him alone and there appears no brier patch in which we can now get ourselves clean.
“An Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”.
Impeach and Imprison.
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- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/opinion/trump-putin-destruction-democracy.html
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