{"id":36840,"date":"2019-05-04T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36840"},"modified":"2019-05-04T00:00:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T00:00:22","slug":"uh-mr-potus-the-russia-probe-was-no-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36840","title":{"rendered":"Uh, Mr. POTUS, the Russia probe was no ‘hoax’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald Trump and his BFF, Vladimir Putin, reportedly chatted this week by telephone.<\/p>\n

The U.S. and Russian presidents talked about a lot of matters, according to Trump, but they didn’t discuss the one issue that looms like a colossus over both of them.<\/p>\n

It’s that matter of Russian interference\/attack on our electoral system in 2016.<\/p>\n

Oh, but then Trump said he referred to the investigation into that issue “the Russian hoax.” Trump still seems to ignore what every single high-ranking U.S. intelligence official has said out loud: The Russian attacked our electoral system.<\/p>\n

Robert Mueller, the special counsel who looked into allegations of “collusion” and possible obstruction of justice, was the latest of them to say the same thing. He said the Russian attack was “sweeping and systematic.”<\/p>\n

Trump isn’t buying it. He calls it all a “hoax.” The attack itself. The investigation into it. The impact it likely had on the result of the 2016 election. None of it happened, Trump appears to say.<\/p>\n

Yep, he buys instead into Vladimir Putin’s alleged denial that he did anything untoward during the election.<\/p>\n

I’m not altogether certain why I keep saying what is so patently obvious to everyone, but I’ll keep saying it. The Russians are bad actors. They are not our friends. They won’t be our friends as long as they governed by a former KGB spy whose job was built on lies and deception.<\/p>\n

Yet the president said yet again after chatting with Putin that being “friends” with Russia is a good thing. Sure it is. Only if Putin is out of the picture. That, of course, won’t happen.<\/p>\n

The Russians attacked us. It is the farthest thing possible from a “hoax.” Robert Mueller’s investigation sought to determine whether there was a conspiracy to collude with Russians who launched that attack. The investigation was no “hoax,” either.<\/p>\n

It was done by a highly credible, dedicated, and heroic<\/em> public servant. Robert Mueller deserves praise — not condemnation — from the president of the United States.<\/p>\n

Trump and Putin deserve each other. This nation, the one Donald Trump supposedly leads, deserve far better than it is getting from its president.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald Trump and his BFF, Vladimir Putin, reportedly chatted this week by telephone. The U.S. and Russian presidents talked about a lot of matters, according to Trump, but they didn’t discuss the one issue that looms like a colossus over both of them. It’s that matter of Russian interference\/attack on our electoral system in 2016. … Continue reading Uh, Mr. POTUS, the Russia probe was no ‘hoax’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1424,2675,3983,8602,7467,5125],"class_list":["post-36840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-kgb","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-hoax","tag-russian-interference","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36841,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36840\/revisions\/36841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}