Max Boot has been a Republican a lot longer than Donald Trump, and he's compiled the following 18 ideas supporting the claim Donald Trump is a traitor to his country (but not his class)
Opinion | Here are 18 reasons Trump could be a Russian asset
"On Friday, the New York Times reported that 'in the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests.'
"That investigation may well be continuing under the auspices of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. We don’t know what Mueller has learned. But we can look at the key, publicly available evidence that both supports and undercuts this explosive allegation.
"Here is some of the evidence suggesting 'Individual 1' could be a Russian 'asset'..."
"— Trump was utterly supine in his meetings with Putin, principally in Hamburg and Helsinki.
"Even more suspicious, according to a Post article on Saturday, Trump 'has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with . . . Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials . . . Several officials said they were never able to get a reliable readout of the president’s two-hour meeting in Helsinki.'"
Opinion | Here are 18 reasons Trump could be a Russian asset
"On Friday, the New York Times reported that 'in the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests.'
"That investigation may well be continuing under the auspices of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. We don’t know what Mueller has learned. But we can look at the key, publicly available evidence that both supports and undercuts this explosive allegation.
"Here is some of the evidence suggesting 'Individual 1' could be a Russian 'asset'..."
"— Trump was utterly supine in his meetings with Putin, principally in Hamburg and Helsinki.
"Even more suspicious, according to a Post article on Saturday, Trump 'has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with . . . Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials . . . Several officials said they were never able to get a reliable readout of the president’s two-hour meeting in Helsinki.'"
