Yes, or then again, no. I defy and will welcome the day the Democrats feel they have enough smoke and mirror's to deceive their wanton Lemmings into the impeachment march. I will also welcome back the few Dem's who have the guts to return to reason.
Regards,
CP
To be perfectly frank with you, my biggest concern isn't whether to impeach Trump or not... it isn't even the Russian attempt to influence the election. If we're the type of people who sit idly by while our democracy gets subverted by foreign governments, then we didn't deserve to be free in the first place. Too much blood has been split to buy us that freedom - and we've never allowed ourselves to forget that. When the chips are down - as they have been in the past- we've always found the way to stand up to the challenge. We'll do it again. We always do.
What concerns me is the culture that President Trump represents. Machiavelli tells us to judge a Prince by the people he surrounds himself with. So who does President Trump surround himself with? People like General Flynn - who was willing to sell out his country and violate it's laws for a few dollars. Or Paul Manafort - the same thing. I could go down the list.... but these are weak men of low moral character. People who are willing to jump at the chance to get "dirt" of their political rivals - even when that dirt is being offered from foreign governments. There were no compunctions about it. And what's more, they had no compunctions about lying to the FBI or to the Special Counsel in doing what they did.
George Papadopoulos is indicative. He was young, ambitious, and had no moral hang-ups about getting ahead and making a name for himself. The Russians saw this and they saw this unbound ambition as a weakness they could exploit in trying to recruit him. Under different circumstances, he might have ended up as a mid-level appointee in the Trump State Department. How vulnerable do you figure his activities would have made him to exploitation by Russian intelligence? And what assurances do we have that there weren't others in the same position?
Sally Yates has testified that her main concern with General Flynn is that his lying to the Vice President, the WH Press Secretary, and even the FBI made him possibly vulnerable to exploitation by the Russians. They knew the nature of the secret conversations he had with Ambassador Kislyak... and so they were also aware of the lies he told to cover them. She made those concerns known to the White House, and yet they did nothing to address them until the secret conversations were exposed by the
Washington Post almost three weeks later. But what if they weren't exposed? What if the Russians then used them to lean on the General?
What about Jared Kushner? We know there seems to have been significant issues from his past that led the intelligence community to deny him his security clearance. What we don't know is the nature of those objections. Is he similarly vulnerable to exploitation by foreign intelligence agencies? And yet the President just overruled the objections out of hand and granted him the security clearance anyway.
If you're honest with yourself, then you know that President Trump likes to surround himself with weak individuals. People who will do his bidding without question. Anyone who doesn't fit that description doesn't last long within his orbit.
Human weakness is what spy recruitment depends on. And I think that is the biggest eye-opener of the whole Mueller Report. Just how fertile the ground was for the SVR and the GRU within the Trump campaign. It was a very target-rich environment. I submit that it's not what's reported within the Mueller Report that is the most troubling.... it's what hasn't been discovered yet.
