Rep. Maxine Waters continues to show the kind of leadership and integrity the Democratic party, and the country, needs, as she makes the case, every day, that Mr. Trump is corrupt, deceitful, unfit, and dangerous:
“For those keeping track, this President fired the FBI director who was investigating his campaign’s ties to Russia, admitted on national television that he did so because of his dissatisfaction with said investigation, met with Russian officials the next day during which he gave them classified information, and still to this day refuses to fully acknowledge the intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help him prevail. This all comes as we learn more each day about the types of conversations Trump’s Kremlin Klan had with the Russian ambassador – conversations that they were all so anxious to conceal from public scrutiny.
“Last week, Trump’s National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn reportedly said the President is ‘looking at’ changes to the economic sanctions imposed on Russia (The Hill 5/25/17). As I have long said, I strongly suspect this is all about the sanctions. The Russians want the sanctions lifted; and they, along with so many in Trump’s camp, possibly including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who previously served as CEO of ExxonMobil and negotiated a multi-billion dollar deal with Russia to drill in the Russian Arctic, could stand to make a lot of money if the United States lifts them.
So why does cable news and the front page of my hometown newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer, focus on whether Kathy Griffin should apologize? Hmmm...