People keep talking about collusion despite the fact that collusion is not a crime. However, conspiracy to hack into the DNC email system AND obstruction of justice are both crimes and would qualify as high crimes and misdemeanors for the purposes of impeachment.
But what if that's not the least of it?
After all, isn't it strange that Trump never says anything bad or negative about Putin? Isn't it also extremely odd that Trump keeps denying Russian interference in the 2016 election despite overwhelming evidence provided by numerous intelligence agencies? And why hasn't Trump enacted the sanctions that congress overwhelmingly voted on last year?
Let me propose a possible theory of what happened in the past and what's happening behind the scenes now: Years ago, Trump struck a bargain with the devil (so to speak). He agreed to help Russians launder money (which is, of course, illegal) in exchange for payment. For the most part, these transactions mostly flew under the radar. However, the Russians would certainly have evidence of all of these transactions although they would certainly have no incentive to blow the whistle on Trump. But once Trump ran for president and WON the election, the Russians would now have leverage over Trump. That leverage would give the Russians the power to blackmail Trump. At this point, Trump had a choice. One choice was the choice of a patriot: refuse to give in to the blackmail and risk the possibility that the money laundering scheme would go public. The other choice is the choice of a traitor who would place his own personal interest above the interests of the USA while also betraying his oath of office. In other words, Trump is quite possibly putting the interests of Putin and Russia above that of his own country and is essentially a foreign agent, and a turncoat. More plainly, it's quite possible that President Trump is a traitor.
What say you?
Have any of you liberal whack nut jobs considered
that bats will fly out of your ass before any of
your made up bull shit sticks to Trump…
It’s all coming back to bite you in the ass….
Are you familiar with the following Edmund Burke quote?
“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
I ask that question for the following reason:
At some point, rich and powerful men may seem untouchable. The reason why is simple. It's because they basically are, at least for a time. They have money, and they have power, and they have allies who are willing to protect them, whether those allies are true loyalists or whether they're hired guns. But things change, sometimes slowly, and sometimes quickly depending on the circumstances. Don't believe me? Men like Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, Bernie Ebbers, Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, and Bernie Madoff know/knew it to be true from personal experience. One day, they were at the top of their game, essentially unassailable. Then the bottom dropped out, and allies fled..
There are other less successful, but almost equally famous men (due to television exposure) like Don Lapre and Kevin Trudeau who scammed people out of money and used paid infomercials to do it. Frankly, it strikes me as almost fitting and prescient that Trump engaged in s similar scam with his Trump University which bilked trusting but gullible people out of tens of thousands of dollars with promises of riches at the end of a phony rainbow. However, I know that there's a certain segment of our society that blames the victims for not being more savvy. So be it. After all, Trump, like all those "Flip this house with no money down" is, at his core, a salesman and a self-promoter who accentuates the positive (even if it's essentially a fiction) while overlooking the negative. Used car salesmen and unscrupulous real estate agents have been doing that for decades. And while that may be wholly unethical, it's not necessarily illegal(depending on the circumstances, of course. However, that's merely commerce. After all, caveat emptor, right?
But we're talking about a whole different ball game when it comes to national security. So, when Trump has a photo-op meeting with the dictator of North Korea and achieves no meaningful and verifiable concessions from Kim, but Trump nonetheless tweets out that we can all sleep safe at night because of what he "accomplished," I'm not at all reassured.
That leads me to Putin. Putting is a cagey and experienced KGB agent who's been running Russia for almost 20 years. He's not going to be buffaloed by a former NY real estate developer who only has 18 months of OJT as the American president with no other governmental experience. Putin is going to eat Trump's lunch unless Trump is smart enough to make sure that he prepares for the summit (he played golf the day before), and he brings knowledgeable aides into the meeting with him (he did not)
There's simply too MUCH at stake for our country, not to mention the Western Alliance, for our president to behave as if this exercise in governance was little more than an extension of his effort to engage in ego gratification.
But like I said at the start, rich and powerful men may seem untouchable, but it's a mistake to believe that their power doesn't have limits if not time constraints. If you don't believe that, look at President Riichard Nixon. In 1972, he won reelection with 49 states voting for him. Less than two years later, he resigned in disgrace. Nixon, for all his faults, knew the game was over and decided not to put the country he loved through a long, and protracted, and painful impeachment morass. As for Trump, I don't see him as a man who would resign. He would willingly, and stubbornly, (and perhaps gleefully) put America through a spasm of political immolation..What a waste that would be if the end is just the same. But it's fathomable, if not defensible, when you come to understand one thing: The one thing that Trump cares about above and beyond all other things is: Trump.
