Forget the mainstream CNN, or Fox News, or any of the other many charlatans who pass themselves off as "the press" in the USA today.
This is the best and most insightful coverage of the Mueller Investigation to date, anywhere...
https://www.wired.com/story/president-trump-mueller-russia-agent-putin/
Mr. Graff gets it.
Wow! Fascinating read. What do you think? A incredibly hapless manipulated Russian pawn, or a ruthless, knowing active traitor?
ReplyDeleteYes, Graff is great. Trump is not moral..."traitor" implies something immoral, but he does not weigh the morals or ethics in any of his actions. He is a businessman who saw an opportunity while in a personal crisis, who was introduced to someone who could help him out so he said "yes"...this was how he escaped bankruptcy in the early 1990s. I think his friends were Russians who moved illicit money through him, and made him wealthy again as he laundered their cash through real estate holdings. They have been his friends ever since, but what changed was the deal - this time it was for the presidency. I think he believes he can handle Putin, and he convinces himself that what he is asked to do (e.g. suggest relaxing sanctions against Russia, turning a blind eye to their aggression in Ukraine...publicly giving Putin the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the accusation that he interfered in the election) is both rationale and ultimately good for America. The lack of any moral compass is a fatal defect that leaves him incapable of measuring his actions against an objective standard - so he knows they helped him and he helped them in the election, but he is also incapable of seeing that this was wrong either on their part or his own. So he is kind of both - a long-standing willing compatriot and also a dupe who is constitutionally incapable of knowing that what he is doing is wrong, even when what he does is at the bequest of America's historic enemy. What do you think??!!
ReplyDeleteVery good points Ron. My view is that he is morally and intellectually lazy. He seeks primarily his own pleasure and ego gratification. Hence, he chooses the easy path to satisfy his id. Not the right path, not the legal path, but the easy path. If he is offered something and does not have to work for it, he will take it. So, I land on the hapless, but willing pawn.
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