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DAVID FRUM 2:21 PM ET
Day by day, revelation after revelation, the legitimacy of the .. presidency is seeping away. The question .. is .. ever more urgent and frightening.
The .. cloud .. over the .. presidency thickened deeper Friday ... The Washington Post reported that the CIA told .. Obama last year that .. Putin had .. specifically instructed his intelligence agencies to intervene in the .. presidential election to hurt .. Clinton and help .. Trump ...
Trump .. denounces the whole thing as .. a made-up story. He has not yet lost all .. true believers. But those believers do not include .. many .. leading Republicans in Congress. Senate Majority Leader .. McConnell agrees it happened. So does House Speaker .. Ryan. The House number two, Kevin McCarthy, has even joked that Russia pays Trump.
Its not seriously disputed by anyone in a position of authority in the U.S. governmentapart from the president himselfthat Donald Trump holds his high office in considerable part because a foreign spy agency helped place him there. So now what? ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/what-happens-when-a-presidency-loses-its-legitimacy/531447/
Botany
(70,290 posts)For such a "fake news" story they sure have gone and hired real lawyers
SHRED
(28,136 posts)They are ALL traitors.
Skittles
(152,964 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)Gothmog
(143,999 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)for his lies on air all the time,nothing changes. It still all about the ratings and bottom line and the quarterly dividend.