First and foremost, the duty of our Nation’s President is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.
Polls, politics, policies, and agendas are all faint and far distant priorities compared to that central tenet contained in the solemn oath sworn by this and every other President since the founding of our Republic.
Allegations of collusion between members of trump’s cronies and cyber-forces under the direct command of Vladimir Putin during last year’s Presidential campaign are (as yet) unproven and will not be debated here.
What is beyond dispute, though, in the well informed and carefully considered judgement of our Nation’s Intelligence and Security professionals is that those forces (patriotic individuals according to mobster & murderer in chief Vladimir Putin) launched a prolonged and systematic attack on America’s most cherished and admired birth-right: Free and Fair Elections.
So how does the individual who freely assumed responsibility for defending that right (along with all others enshrined in our Constitution) against all enemies foreign and domestic react to this assault?
By questioning the intelligence, integrity, and motives of those dedicated individuals who have made it their life’s work to make sure that our “President” has the information he needs to protect us all in an increasingly dangerous confrontation with our most implacable foe in decades.
Although the Putin’s mobsters have repeatedly been caught red-handed using the same tactics of massive dis-information, phishing and hacking schemes to challenge and subvert the democratic process throughout the Western Democracies, trump (despite earlier half-hearted admissions to the contrary) continues to push Putin’s party line that “nobody really knows” who is behind the carefully targeted attacks on our most fundamental institution.
The President of the United States said last week that only four of our Nation’s seventeen Intelligence and Security agencies agreed with the assessment that the Putin’s henchmen were behind the cyber-attack that called into question the credibility of last year’s election. What he declined to mention, though, is that those four agencies (the FBI, CIA, NSA, & DNI) are THE organizations within our Government that are specifically tasked with protecting our Nation and our system of government against such threats.
It is obvious that the stalwart members of those U.S. government agencies take their oaths and responsibilities a LOT more seriously than does their “Commander In Chief”.
This is NOT a matter of party affiliation. It is NOT a case open to different interpretations or “alternative facts”. Policy differences and political agendas have no bearing on this matter.
The state sponsored corruption machine designed and operated by Vladimir Putin has attacked the United States and most of our Allies at the very core of our Democratic institutions. They have been caught doing so repeatedly by those whom we have entrusted with the defense of our Nation.
Our “President” has openly denounced those dedicated patriots who defend us against these attacks. He has clearly, repeatedly, and unequivocally defended those who would destroy our system of government as well as the U.S. Constitution in which the principles of that system are enshrined.
“Whose side is he on, anyway?” would be a pretty fair question in light of these circumstances.
It is also, unfortunately, an entirely unnecessary question as trump has already demonstrated through both words and deeds that he is leading the charge against us.
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