Here are selected reactions to last night's New York Times story about the FBI conducting a counterintelligence investigation on compromised Putin puppet Donald "Rump" Trump (and to Rump's defensive tweet storm this morning):
Stepping back for a minute: If no other reporting existed on Trump/Russia, the fact that the FBI started a CI investigation to determine whether or not the sitting president of the US was either comprised by or an agent of Russia, it would be the biggest political story...ever. https://t.co/RRenfxbgmH— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 12, 2019
Manchurian Candidate? https://t.co/0QOKNvMtGv @MSNBC— Frank Figliuzzi (@FrankFigliuzzi1) January 12, 2019
I’ve always been fascinated by traitors. They consider themselves highly intelligent, yet fail to understand how likely they are to be caught. When they are, they become men without a home, having betrayed their countrymen and been used by an enemy. So it will be with this one. https://t.co/It1mJPAwZs— Evan McMullin (@Evan_McMullin) January 12, 2019
This is the kind of speech you give in Spanish in the early 1950s into a tinny microphone with the crackle and static of a fading kerosene generator and the sound of shouting and gunfire in the background approaching the presidential palace. https://t.co/DltdXyvyz2— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 12, 2019
How would a president compromised by the Russians behave, and give me any moment in the last two years where Trump has behaved differently. @CNN #TrumpRussia pic.twitter.com/2GruhC7rxO— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) January 12, 2019
Other times there's been a "revelation" that Trump is a Russian agent. When he:— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 12, 2019
* Asked Russia for HRC emails
* Gave secrets to Russians in Oval after firing Comey
* Prostrated himself in Helsinki
* Used Trump Tower as a Russian mafia dorm
Ask why no one who could stop him did
You should be less shocked by the smoking gun than by the fact that the gun is still in POTUS's hand.— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) January 12, 2019
It's smoking because he's shooting our country to death.
It's smoking because no one will take the gun.
It's smoking because the people tasked with protecting you reload it.
