Dear Editor:
On Sunday morning, Feb. 18, the president of the United States tweeted:
"Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter. This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump campaign - there is no collusion. Get back to the basics and make us all proud!"
SOOO, what you are saying to us, Mr. president, is basically this, "Yes, it's very sad that 17 people lost their lives to some nut with an assault rifle, but let's not lose sight of the fact that the real victim in this senseless tragedy is me."
Only Donald Trump could come up with something like this - taking the horror of the Parkland, Florida, shooting and turn it into being something about himself. It literally staggers one's imagination!
Thus far, Robert Mueller, special prosecutor in the Russian probe, has issued no less than 20 indictments (13 Russian nationals, three Russian companies, and four American citizens, including Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, George Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn) in this matter that our president has repeatedly called a "hoax." It is a given that more indictments are coming.
It is also a given that the Russians are still, to this day, conducting what they call "informational warfare" on the United States, attempting to further disrupt our democratic processes and institutions. Congress, by a vote of 517-5, overwhelmingly approved new sanctions against the Russians in retaliation for these attacks. The Trump administration has yet to impose those sanctions because, "We don't believe they are necessary." This begs the question - why won't Trump implement these sanctions? Do the Russians have something on him? Is he beholding to the Russians in some way? One cannot help but wonder about these things.
Never mind that he repeatedly told the American people during his campaign that "I only hire the best!" It would seem to me that if Mr. Trump were truly and honestly unaware of these people and their level of entanglement with a hostile foreign power, that would still make him criminally negligent in the oversight of his own campaign. After all, they worked for him and were supposedly his closest advisers.
And if he were aware of that involvement - that would make him a criminal.
Which is it?