USA TODAY: Putins Saturday Night Massacre: He got Trump and the GOP to sell out America

[kpete]

Putin’s KGB-inspired maneuvering has all the earmarks of a carefully planned, professionally executed war game. But it's not a game.

Whiplash. It happened so swiftly, but with such surgical precision, the full impact of the series of events took a few breathless moments for the nation to grasp what had just occurred.

Andrew McCabe, deputy director of the FBI, resigns under pressure.

Then Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee vote to release a staff memo alleging FBI surveillance abuses relating to the Trump-Russia investigation, despite FBI Director Christopher Wray’s warning that some of the information is classified and there are “material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”

Literally minutes after the committee vote, the Trump administration announces it will NOT impose sanctions on Russia even though both the House and the Senate voted nearly unanimously for the sanctions that would punish Russia specifically for meddling in the 2016 presidential election, for annexing Crimea in 2014 and for its incursions in Ukraine.

And that was just Monday.


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[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R...for visibility...nt

[RandomAccess]

2. WOWOWOWOWOWOW

It's an OPINION piece, but having this appear in any mainstream news publication -- SOMEONE authorized it! -- is serious.

We are in such trouble.

[R B Garr]

3. Putin must have convinced them of some great ways to collect billions

for themselves.

[neohippie]

4. written by a Republican no less

Just the fact that this story was written, and by a Republican no less is a huge step in the right direction that our country's mindset needs to be moving in

[saidsimplesimon]

5. I agree.

This is just my opinion. Enjoy

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. GOP assists by raiding treasury

The GOP is complicit. It raids the treasury, pays its donors, ignores its duty in order to maintain power at all cost.

With scant exceptions, congressional Republicans remain silent in tacit approval as Trump defies the Congress on Russian sanctions (after he got what he wanted from Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee).