But in reality, this guy is:
There are many things that should alarm us about the fact that Donald Trump has been taking a sledgehammer to our political infrastructure and rendering much of it moot due to a non-stop spigot of lying, cheating, disgusting policies, unparalleled corruption; and just being an all around fucking asshole. But it's the way he talks about Russia and the way in which he covers things up related to Vladimir Putin's hold on him that should be the most unsettling and, frankly, terrifying part.
Despite over two years of yammering "no collusion, no obstruction," and using every lever of power and trickery and manipulation available despite the fact that there was indeed collusion and indeed obstruction and that those things are continuing right now for the 2020 election, Trump still fears Vlad more than anything. Bill Barr, Rudy Giuliani, his family/cabinet and a slew of GOP congress minions are still trying to exonerate their hero who is a loose cannon that also happens to deliver tax cuts and judges to them. But now that Trump and Giuliani finally said the quiet parts out loud (Ukraine), impeachment is a foregone conclusion.
But still, Trump is ignoring advisers and continues to make rogue foreign policy decisions that would only make sense if he were trying to please his puppet master (yes Hillary, you were right about that). Giving Turkey a green light to brutally attack and murder the Kurds in Syria and allow ISIS to regenerate and Putin to suddenly control the levers of power in the Middle East has made us look ridiculous to the rest of the world. His own party is now turning against him.
And if you look back, you will be able to connect the dots. Every time Trump and Putin meet, it's privately with NO Americans. For a while there was one American, a translator, but Trump had to destroy her notes to hide what was discussed, and now he just doesn't bother to have any other Americans in the room. He took Putin's side about election interference instead of his own FBI's intelligence. He had two of Russia's top diplomats in the Oval Office the day after he fired James Comey, and in that meeting gave Russia classified intelligence regarding Israel.
It's at the point where this is not funny, and it's beyond dangerous. We are losing allies unless you think Russia, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, and Turkey are good allies. Putin has played the long game of attacking our country's online infrastructure, using propaganda and playing his puppet like a fiddle who will make decisions based on Putin and Russia's best interests, rather than the best interests of all Americans.
It's sure gonna take a while for us to recover, if we ever do at all.
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