{"id":27848,"date":"2018-02-02T23:52:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T23:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27848"},"modified":"2018-02-02T23:52:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T23:52:09","slug":"will-potus-ever-recognize-russia-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27848","title":{"rendered":"When will POTUS ever recognize the Russia threat?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I guess there’s not a single thing I do can do except keep yapping out loud about it. So, therefore, I will.<\/p>\n

When is the president of the United States going to acknowledge publicly what many of his fellow Americans already know: Russia threatens our sacred political process.<\/p>\n

Instead, Donald John Trump Sr. continues to disparage our<\/em> law enforcement agencies, our<\/em> counterintelligence organizations, our<\/em> criminal justice system, our<\/em> key protectors.<\/p>\n

Trump ratcheted up that criticism of our law enforcement agencies today by allowing the release of a Republican-authored memo that accuses the FBI of bias in its investigation into Russian hacking of our electoral process.<\/p>\n

The president attacked the leadership of the FBI and the Justice Department. Oh, sure, he managed to say a good word about the “rank and file” within the FBI. The men and women on the front line, though, work for the very leadership that Trump has continued to criticize, undermine and — some might argue — defame.<\/p>\n

I won’t accuse the president of defaming the FBI and DOJ leadership, but I keep returning to a fundamental question: When is the president going to admit in the open that Russia is a bad actor?<\/p>\n

Russian President\/strongman Vladimir Putin is no “friend” of the United States. I don’t know this as fact, but I cannot believe for an instant that the former KGB boss thinks as highly of Trump as the president says he does. A large part of me believes Putin is laughing his backside off at the confusion, chaos and controversy he has delivered to the United States as a result of the Russian meddling in our 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n

Putin committed an act of aggression against this country and for the life of me, I cannot accept why the president of the United States refuses to call that aggression what it is.<\/p>\n

I have my share of theories as to why he remains quiet on Russia. I maintain my belief that Americans deserve to see the president’s full tax returns and financial disclosure. They very well could tell us plenty about the president’s reluctance to call the Russians out.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump’s silence is deafening in the extreme.<\/p>\n\n

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