The Legitimate President - offers a prescription for America's Shame

[Bill USA]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-legitimate-president_us_587930cfe4b077a19d180d84?

On Friday, a prominent Democrat on Capitol Hill finally said it.

“I don’t see this president-elect as a legitimate president,” said Representative John Lewis, D-Ga., in an exclusive interview with NBC News. “I think the Russians participated in helping [Trump] get elected. And they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.”

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The Jokes On Us

Instead, Putin’s approval ratings have gone UP among Republicans. Blinded by party loyalty and trained to make every political conflict a ‘Democrats versus Republicans’ issue, conservatives would rather side with Putin than acknowledge the legitimacy of a Hillary Clinton presidency. The result? A troubling trend towards normalizing Trump’s ‘unpresidented’ behavior.

That Trump’s diversions mimic an effective Russian government propaganda tactic known as the 4D Approach (dismiss, distort, distract, dismay) is particularly unsurprising in light of reports of an explosive dossier released this week that alleges that the Russian government has been cultivating Donald Trump for years and has compromising personal, sexual, and financial information on him.

Suddenly, reports that Trump’s campaign made contact with Russian officials in November, and Mr. Trump’s reticence to disclose his foreign assets, paint a troubling picture of a president-elect groomed, owned by, and acting in concert with a hostile foreign power.
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