Donald Trumps White House is on the verge of a raging fire over Russia allegations
Know that cliche “Where there's smoke, there's fire”? The Trump White House is now engulfed in smoke over contacts between his presidential campaign (and transition team) and the Russian government. It's time for Trump to dump a whole heaping bucket of cold water on the fire or risk it beginning to burn out of control and threatening his entire presidency.
The danger to Trump surged Tuesday night when the New York Times and CNN both reported that numerous contacts had been detected between Trump campaign officials and the Russians over the course of the 2016 race. While it remains unclear just how high-ranking these aides were or whether there was any coordination with the Russian efforts to hack the election, the very fact that Trump officials were reportedly in regular contact with Russia flies directly in the face of a slew of denials from Trump and his aides on that matter over the course of the last many months.
Here's just one example:
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Trump's response to these serious allegations, which have already cost him his national security adviser and now threaten the foundations of his presidency, has been decidedly flippant. In a tweetstorm Wednesday morning, Trump blamed the “fake news” media and Hillary Clinton for the stories and sought to pivot the conversation to how the information regarding the contacts between his campaign and the Russians leaked out.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/15/only-one-person-can-stop-the-flood-of-allegations-on-russia/?tid=pm_politics_pop&utm_term=.80d2166a6931