Was Trump compromised by Russians? We don't know -- but we do know he adores authoritarian thugs

[DonViejo]

THURSDAY, MAR 9, 2017 08:05 AM EST

Was Trump compromised by Russians? We don’t know — but we do know he adores authoritarian thugs

Illegal connections with Russia? We may never know, but Trump’s romance with brutal strongmen is the real problem

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

I don’t think there’s much doubt that President Donald Trump is a very lucky man. You don’t fail up the way he has without a surfeit of good fortune (or without making a deal with the devil.) He inherited a fortune, and as much as he tried to lose it all he only ended up making more money.

Now he’s the president of the most powerful nation on Earth, and the first six weeks of his presidency have shown us that his good luck is holding. Trump is his own worst enemy, stepping on good press with tantrums and gaffes. His obvious unfitness and lack of preparation for the job becomes clearer every day. Somehow, something always intervenes to save him.

We don’t know what will happen with what Breitbart has dubbed “DeepStateGate.” The latest WikiLeaks publication — of secret CIA spying tools — is morphing into a Bizarro World scandal in which the question of the hacking of a presidential campaign and possible connections between the president’s men and shadowy Russians is now about former President Barack Obama running a clandestine CIA “false flag” operation to pin the hacking on the Russians and implicate Trump.

Congressional investigations will now perhaps include both the Russian hacking and possible Obama wiretapping, which is another lucky break for Trump. Republicans run those committees and will be happy to flog whatever storyline will help their president.

Link to tweet

This raises the question of whether people should get their hopes up about the Russian scandal revealing something impeachable. Of course, there is enough evidence to investigate. A foreign government’s interfering with a democratic country’s election is a big problem. (And yes, I know the U.S. has done this as well. I think that’s a big problem, too.)

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http://www.salon.com/2017/03/09/was-trump-compromised-by-russians-we-dont-know-but-we-do-know-he-adores-authoritarian-thugs/

[brush]

1. trump certainly adores dictators, so much so during the State of the Union speech...

he thrust out his chin... er, ah... chins, just like Mussolini used to do.

What a cartoon he is.

Someone should tell him how Mussolini ended up.

[JHB]

2. Yep, secreted govt information, just ooooooozed it...

...as opposed to Trumpian tweet excretes.