A wild ride on Comey Island: Russia tried to hijack democracy and Donald Trump didnt even pretend t
A wild ride on Comey Island: Russia tried to hijack democracy and Donald Trump didn’t even pretend to care
by Gary Legum at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/08/a-wild-ride-on-comey-island-russia-tried-to-hijack-democracy-and-donald-trump-didnt-even-pretend-to-care/
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The other big takeaway is that President Donald Trump does not care about any of this.
He does not care about election meddling by a foreign power. He does not care about whether any of his associates participated in that meddling, wittingly or unwittingly. He does not care about the lines of demarcation between his power and the independence of law enforcement agencies. Anything not about his own self-perceived greatness is simply irrelevant.
Comey testified that on Jan. 6, he briefed then President-elect Trump on some of the more “salacious” details of the Christopher Steele dossier. That was the infamous report compiled by a former British intelligence agent about alleged Russian meddling in the election; it also included compromising material regarding Trump supposedly accumulated by the Russians. Trump seems to have had a very strong reaction to only one part of it — the unsubstantiated story about a blackmail tape depicting Trump, um, interacting with Russian prostitutes during past visits to Russia.
The existence of that tape so upset Trump that he called Comey at least one more time to complain about it. Also at the infamous Jan. 27 dinner where Trump allegedly asked the FBI director to swear his personal loyalty, he suggested he might have Comey investigate the pee-gate story in order to prove it wasn’t true.
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