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In counterintelligence, when we say somebody is “compromised,” that doesn’t necessarily mean they are a Manchurian candidate or a spy who has been wittingly recruited. I don’t think that Trump, when he meets with Putin, receives a task list for the next quarter. But I do think the president is compromised, that he is unable to put the interests of our nation first, that he acts from hidden motives, because there is leverage over him, held specifically by the Russians but potentially others as well. For example, when he is on the campaign trail saying I have no financial relationships with Russia, while at the very same time, his lawyer Michael Cohen is in Moscow negotiating a deal for a Trump Tower, there are people who know that. Vladimir Putin knows that. As it happened, the FBI knew it. But nobody in the American public knew it. So the moment that he says it, everybody who knows about that lie has leverage over him.
Conor Friedersdorf: Donald Trump gave Russia leverage over his presidency
But that one incident is part of a pervasive pattern of conduct. Look at Trump’s failure to disclose his taxes, look at the story of his telephone call with the president of Ukraine. Time and time again, Trump is fighting tooth and nail to avoid things becoming public. If you’re a foreign intelligence service and you are able to use all of your tools to collect information—to intercept emails, intercept phone calls, recruit people or place people in the president’s orbit who can supply information—you are going to find out about the things that Trump is trying so hard to conceal because they would be damaging to him. That gives you coercive leverage. And that begins to explain why he has time and time again done these inexplicable things that have no positive outcome for U.S. national interests.
This is what I've seen in Trump's actions. He acts like someone who doesn't have our country's best interests first because #1 - Putin has compromising information on him, and #2 - Trump is all about amassing money, so he doesn't give a damn about the country unless it somehow affects him personally.
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Reason: Whoops! Amassing money, not amazing it.
This is what I've seen in Trump's actions. He acts like someone who doesn't have our country's best interests first because #1 - Putin has compromising information on him, and #2 - Trump is all about amazing money, so he doesn't give a damn about the country unless it somehow affects him personally.
Anyone who is willing to ignore all Trump has done and his policies that have benefited the country could spew such nonsense !!!
Disgraced agent Strzok is willing to say anything at this point. He's crying about Trump being "cruel" to him after he was exposed trying to help Hillary win. His credibility is a big fat zero. He's just trying to get some type of revenge as the election gets closer.
Disgraced agent Strzok is willing to say anything at this point. He's crying about Trump being "cruel" to him after he was exposed trying to help Hillary win. His credibility is a big fat zero. He's just trying to get some type of revenge as the election gets closer.
He's likely looking for an appointed position in a Joe Hiden admin., should that happen !!!
Well that answers that question. He got a book published before going to prison for a long time. The proceeds should help him buy off would be prison rapists and will also undoubtedly help if he wants to score some marijuana or cocaine in federal prison.
“I never would have imagined—could not have imagined—that the president of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, would single me out with repeated attacks of treason, accusing me of plotting a coup against our government.”
Yeah, no **** Pete!
You, like everyone else, expected Hillary Clinton to win in 2016.
Did Wilson have this country's best interest in mind when he sent soldier to protect US banking interests in Europe.
Get a grip.
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