Donald Trump isolates himself by living in a state of denial on Russia
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By James Hohmann January 6 at 10:23 AM
THE BIG IDEA: As the nations top spies brief Donald Trump today on how they concluded that Russia interfered in the election, the president-elect continues to isolate himself. From the truth. From intellectually-honest members of his own party on Capitol Hill. Even from the western alliance.
There are few indications that the meeting will prompt Trump to reverse himself after two months of steadfast denials in the face of mounting evidence.
TRUMP VS. REALITY:
If a married couple is fighting at home and they look outside and see that a guy in an ice cream truck is trying to abduct their child, they dont keep arguing. There is nothing possibly important enough to keep arguing about when your child is in danger. Or at least there shouldnt be.
The guy in the metaphorical ice cream truck is Vladimir Putin. The husband is a Republican, and the wife is a Democrat. The kids are the American people.
-- Trump has been trying to muddy the water, to make the hacking into a political story instead of treating it as a cyber-attack on the United States despite a bipartisan consensus among serious and thoughtful people that this was the case.
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