I don’t know whether Russian oligarchs own him financially or whether Russian spies own him personally because of alleged indiscreet behavior during his trips to Moscow. But Trump’s willingness to attack allies like Australia, bluster at rivals like China, threaten enemies like Iran and North Korea and bully neighbors like Mexico — while consistently blowing kisses to Russian President Vladimir Putin — cannot be explained away by his mere desire to improve relations with Moscow to defeat the Islamic State. And the Flynn ouster gives our government another, desperately needed opportunity to demand the answers to these questions, starting with seeing the president’s tax returns.
We need to know whom Trump owes and who might own him, and we need to know it now. Save for a few patriotic Republican senators like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, the entire Republican Party is complicit in a shameful act of looking away at Trump’s inexplicable behavior toward Russia.
Thomas L. Friedman made the above comments in The New York Times op-ed pages today. These are concerns that need to be addressed. America deserves answers to the question is the president of the United States of America compromised in such a way that it renders him unable to conduct the affairs of the nation in a way that insures the interests of the nation and American people are properly served?
With the resignation of Trump’s National Security Advisor republicans have the opportunity, as well as responsibility, to begin investigating Flynn’s activity with respect to Russian sanctions. As well the White House’s silence on the matter over the past weeks. We all know, or should know, what the reaction of republicans would have been had were the Obama administration and White House (or a Hillary Clinton administration) been involved in like circumstances.
As many republicans grow restive over the missteps of the Trump administration this could be the catalyst that was needed to start holding Trump and his administration responsible for actions that obviously are questionable.
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