{"id":24296,"date":"2017-08-29T02:56:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T02:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24296"},"modified":"2017-08-29T02:56:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T02:56:28","slug":"trump-putin-bromance-renews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24296","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Putin ‘bromance’ renews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What in the world gives with Donald Trump?<\/p>\n

He took the floor today at the White House for a brief press encounter with the president of Finland. He took questions from reporters gathered in front of the two leaders.<\/p>\n

One of them asked, “Does Russia pose a national security threat” to the United States.<\/p>\n

The president’s response boggles the mind.<\/p>\n

He said “a lot of nations” pose threats to our security. Not Russia, which was the precise subject of the reporter’s question.<\/p>\n

“A lot of nations … “<\/em><\/p>\n

This kind of obfuscation and thinly veiled verbal trickery is maddening in the extreme. Although it shouldn’t surprise any of us these days.<\/p>\n

The president has continually refused to:<\/p>\n

* Criticize the Russians for taking the Crimea back from Ukraine.<\/p>\n

* Concur with intelligence agencies that Russia acted alone in trying to influence the 2016 outcome.<\/p>\n

* Agree that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a killer.<\/p>\n

He keeps soft-shoeing around the obvious assertions by almost everyone else in Washington that Putin is a real bad dude and that he governs a country that poses a serious threat to this nation’s security.<\/p>\n

He keeps yammering about the need to craft better bilateral relations.<\/p>\n

It’s seemingly obvious, though, that the Russians do threaten us. It’s also obvious that they launched an attack on our electoral process.<\/p>\n

When is the president of the United States going to own up what has become patently obvious<\/em> to the nation he was elected to lead?<\/p>\n\n

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