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DonViejo

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Fri Jan 6, 2017, 12:13 PM Jan 2017

Donald Trump isolates himself by living in a state of denial on Russia

(emphasis exists in the original news article)

By James Hohmann January 6 at 10:23 AM

THE BIG IDEA: As the nation’s 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 don’t keep arguing. There is nothing possibly important enough to keep arguing about when your child is in danger. Or at least there shouldn’t 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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Donald Trump isolates himself by living in a state of denial on Russia (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2017 OP
i completely expect him to leave the intel meeting and lie about it. spanone Jan 2017 #1

spanone

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1. i completely expect him to leave the intel meeting and lie about it.
Fri Jan 6, 2017, 12:17 PM
Jan 2017

the intel folks can only expose so much of their proof....trump can lie his ass off about it.

that's how much confidence i have in the president-elect.

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