Despite the "yeah buts" and whataboutisms from Trump devotees one can't help wondering why he gives so much deference to Putin.............the guy who personally ordered his intel agency to try to corrupt the 2016 election.
Doubting the intelligence, Trump pursues Putin and leaves a Russian
threat unchecked
https://www.washingtonpost.com/grap...sues-vladimir-putin-russian-election-hacking/
"Holding impromptu interventions in Trump’s 26th-floor corner office at Trump Tower, advisers — including Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and designated chief of staff, Reince Priebus — prodded the president-elect to accept the findings that the nation’s spy chiefs had personally presented to him on Jan. 6.
They sought to convince Trump that he could affirm the validity of the intelligence without diminishing his electoral win, according to three officials involved in the sessions. More important, they said that doing so was the only way to put the matter behind him politically and free him to pursue his goal of closer ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“This was part of the normalization process,” one participant said. “There was a big effort to get him to be a standard president.”
But as aides persisted, Trump became agitated. He railed that the intelligence couldn’t be trusted and scoffed at the suggestion that his candidacy had been propelled by forces other than his own strategy, message and charisma."
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Do Trumper's actually think there has been an adequate response by this admin to the security threat to the 2020 election? Especially given US intel agencies warnings Russia is gearing up to meddle again even as I write this.
