Quote:DHBirr wrote:Yeah, but how deep are they going to look into it? And note that Paul Ryan is keeping mum. Trump can shoot someone outside his hotel at high noon (and then commit sodomy at the lobby) and the GOP rank and file will go with it. In return for a free hand to enact a GOP agenda.
Not all the Republicans. There are a few who're demanding a closer look into the election-hack allegations. And McConnell of all people finally took a semi-principled stand, coming right out and saying flatly, "The Russians are not our friends."
The warning flags Trump are raising right now is this:
1. He does not have a plan to divest his business interests nor the inclination to do so.
2. He selected a mix of former military leaders and big government executives. It's a cabinet that would not had looked out of place in a South American caudillo government. So are these guys going to divest their business interests or not?
3. He seems to think Putin and by extension Russia as the U.S. best friends. Or at least frenemies.
4. He seems to think he does not need intelligence briefings. Even with all the intelligence we gather, we still get blindsided. Now I really expect us to get into a gratuitous war.
Now, if any of the folks who voted for Trump has an opposite side to what I just raised, now is the time to speak up.
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