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The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee called President Trump the gravest threat to American democracy hes ever seen after a Helsinki summit at which, he said, the president showed that he was prepared to essentially betray the national security interests of the United States.
One of the terrible realizations of the last year and a half for me is that the damage that the Russians have done to our democracy by meddling in our election is nothing compared to the damage our own president is doing to our democracy by attacking the Justice Department and by denigrating our press, Rep. Adam Schiff said in an interview with the Yahoo News podcast Skullduggery. I think he is doing enormous damage to our national security beyond anything the Russians could do to us.
The comments represented a significant ratcheting up of the attacks on President Trump and his Russian ties that Schiff has been regularly delivering on cable TV for the past year and a half. He spoke to Skullduggery at the Aspen Security Forum in the aftermath of a Helsinki summit in which Trump spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin for two hours alone with no other American officials in the room and then, at a joint press conference, questioned the findings of the U.S. intelligence community that Russians had meddled in the U.S. election, in part because he said Putin had forcefully denied the meddling during the private session.
Although the White House has since walked back Trumps press conference statements, Schiff said legitimate questions remain about whether the president has been compromised by the Russians.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/adam-schiff-trump-prepared-essentially-betray-u-s-interests-helsinki-191836626.html
gordianot
(15,237 posts)Are our problems primarily with Trump or is it the entire Republican Party? Is Trump a just a symptom or is he the disease. Do the Russians have a backup when Trump is gone or goes away?
shraby
(21,946 posts)triron
(21,995 posts)dchill
(38,471 posts)to the ticket when Chris Christie all but had the job nailed down. There are a couple of !!HUGH!! dots to connect. There's your sign...
JI7
(89,247 posts)and how can appeal to the fucked up bigoted crown here to support him even with all the fucked up shit he has done and continues to do ?
there are people like rohrbacher but it's he wont appeal to large crowds.
one reason trump works is because he is also completely selfish, greedy and would easily sell out his own family for personal gain.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)The propaganda is working. Now the deplorable are buying the BS that Putin is "good" and a scapegoat of Dem angst. This is just the beginning!
ffr
(22,669 posts)OMGWTF
(3,951 posts)that's what your annoying mother-in-law does. Russia ATTACKED our democracy. We were ATTACKED GD IT!
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)be too hard to face.
bluestarone
(16,906 posts)dchill
(38,471 posts)Kompromat.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)When is congress and the rest of the fucking country going to wake up and see this for the nightmare that it is?
kentuck
(111,078 posts)There is nothing like a criminal, lying, narcissistic, traitor to keep us on our toes.