Day -13: Little Spoon Trump Nuzzles Closer to Big Spoon Putin

As the New York Times reported, the nation’s top intelligence officials were unanimous in their belief that Russia unduly influenced the U.S.’s most recent presidential election:

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia directed a vast cyberattack aimed at denying Hillary Clinton the presidency and installing Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office, the nation’s top intelligence agencies said in an extraordinary report they delivered on Friday to Mr. Trump.

The Russians attempted to undermine the U.S. government and our very democratic institutions. The intelligence agencies determined that this was not some one-off band of misfits, but at the direction of the Kremlin and Putin himself.

Trump is obviously in public denial.

(Side note: why is “stupid” in quotes in Trump’s tweet? The man has no understanding of basic grammatical rules.)

Trump’s public statements make logical sense, if you put yourself in his shoes. He has to be humiliated that someone thinks him to be so feckless and imbecilic that they’d purposely sabotage his opponent without getting anything tangible in return other than him.

Of course, Trump can’t admit that on the national stage, so he spouts platitudes about how Russia and U.S. are going to have a great relationship moving forward, or that Russia will begin respecting the U.S. now that he is in charge, or that Russia didn’t definitively do anything illicit since the hacks could’ve been a 400 pound hacker in his parents’ basement.

To think Russia wants to be friendly to the U.S. to work together to solve the world’s problems — as the president-elect suggests — is insanely naive.

News flash: Russia is a desperate, regional power, pushed to the brink by a dominant, world power in the U.S. over the last eight years. Altering the terrain of the relationship helps Russia and Russia only.

Putin’s warm chest and stomach must feel comforting to Trump when pressed to the Donald’s back, but it’s awful ifor America.

-13 days in, 1474 to go

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