Red
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And numerous times, Trump himself tried to cast doubt about what the Russians were doing.
To me at least, his constant denial of what the intelligence community and others had concluded about Russian involvement was the most persuasive argument that he was indeed putting his own interests above that of this country when it came to the Russian regime.
It occurs to me, that were we talking about Russia extending election help while Trump was already president, and he acted with complicity toward that help, knew it was happening, but kept quiet that our chief geopolitical adversary of the past 70 years was interfering in our elections, that alone might constitute "high crimes and misdemeanors". And while he did do that in 2016, yet was not yet president, high crimes and misdemeanors does not apply to a private citizen. Yet, intrinsically, it is still a type of betrayal.
By crying "no collusion" on a near daily basis, Trump helped "hide" from view, to a great degree, the fact that he was willing to be complicit in an attack on our democratic institutions by the Russian dictator. Putting himself above his nation to win an election to the highest office in his nation.
And of course he would indeed welcome that help again in 2020, the difference being we are wise to Putin now. The bigger problem is not enough Americans are wise to Trump, which is remarkable, IMO.