McCain Blasts Trump for Believing Putin on Election Meddling
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Sen. John McCain of Arizona blasted President Donald Trump on Saturday after Trump said he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin's denials that Russia interfered in the 2016 US election.
"There's nothing 'America First' about taking the word of a KGB colonel over that of the American intelligence community," McCain said in a statement. "There's no 'principled realism' in cooperating with Russia to prop up the murderous Assad regime, which remains the greatest obstacle to a political solution that would bring an end to the bloodshed in Syria."
McCain was referring to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, a strongman and authoritarian leader who has been accused of multiple human rights abuses since he took power.
"Vladimir Putin does not have America's interests at heart," McCain continued. "To believe otherwise is not only naive but also places our national security at risk."[/quote]
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Come on, John. Find your balls. You're ex-military, you ought not to mince words.
As it happens, there's a two-syllable, seven-letter word that perfectly describes a man who denies the widely-accepted fact that a hostile foreign power interfered in the democratic process of your country. It perfectly describes a man who has done everything in his power to obstruct the investigation into that interference. It perfectly describes a man who the nation is now very much aware is a puppet of that hostile power, and who sits in the Oval Office, betraying the very country he swore to serve, in a pathetic attempt to convince the country he isn't complicit. And that word has been on your lips for a very long time now, I can tell.
You were one of the old guard, when Republicans were a name that commanded a degree of respect - you claimed a monopoly on patriotism when America was last attacked. Where is that nationalistic fervor now, when she has been attacked again?
The word starts with a T, and ends with an R. Say it. Call him out, and you will kindle a fire among the American people unlike anything you've seen. Call him out, and this traitor will not occupy the seat of power for long - Congress will have no choice but to remove him.
After all, what have you left to fear?
Uh, there's a huge step from denouncing a president to calling him a traitor. McCain is smart not to say anything before the actual legal processes begin.
McCain has already all but called him unfit to lead - To say Trump "places our national security at risk," is a big enough leap as it is. This wouldn't be that much further, and I get the distinct impression that he's biting back something sharper.
[QUOTE=Dave_Parker;52882142]These high horse "intellectual" speeches by some posters are really starting to annoy me.[/QUOTE]
So is the gaslighting by some others.
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