The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning national security correspondent Greg Miller reviewed former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's new book, "The Threat," and noted this chilling anecdote:
"Inevitably, the book includes disturbing new detail about Trump’s subservience to Russian President Vladimir Putin. During an Oval Office briefing in July 2017, Trump refused to believe U.S. intelligence reports that North Korea had test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile — a test that Kim Jong Un had called a Fourth of July "gift” to “the arrogant Americans.”Who knows what else Putin has told this useful idiot that will endanger our national security?
Trump dismissed the missile launch as a “hoax,” McCabe writes. “He thought that North Korea did not have the capability to launch such missiles. He said he knew this because Vladimir Putin had told him so.” (our emphasis)
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Trump went after the Intelligence people immediately after being elected, seemingly with no apparent reason. They knew. They knew he was dirty from day one and they didn't know what to do about it. And he went on to handicap them month after month, distancing them from the White House and from other members of the Intelligence community, and firing anyone who had a clue about him and his illegal activities.
Trump is dirty, his family, his businesses, his deals with Russia and everyone else involved with him are all dirty. He's backed by a complicit crony, Mitch McConnell, and now a packed Supreme Court. It will be almost impossible to stop him, just like it was when McCabe and the other Intelligence people realized what they were up against two years ago.
But we can't stop digging. I don't know if Mueller will ever come through, or be allowed to finish, but we have to hope for more evidence to convict these corrupt crooks one after the next.
donnah -- Trump may get away with firing law enforcement and intelligence officials here and there, but the evidence of his corruption and potentially treasonous behavior has been shared with too many beyond the Mueller team at both the Federal and State level. Decades ago, the mob bought off judges and cops but eventually were brought down. Eventually enough good people stand up and overwhelm the corrupt.
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