Trump Responds to Obama: POTUS ‘Is Unfit’ and Clinton ‘Is Equally Unfit’

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31. I've been looking into it....

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Three things stand out to me so far.

* It was the Voice of America that first drew my attention to the fact that the Trump campaign deliberately intervened in the Republican platform and rebuilt it in favor of the Russians. Let's just say that the VOA has always had a "special take" on things and so I considered it significant that they, in combination with the Washington Post, took a lead in this reporting.

http://www.voanews.com/content/proposed-gop-stance-on-ukraine-sparks-controversy/3429297.html

(Edit: And what do you know? This story just dropped like an anvil: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141540180 )

* The Saudi flap could be the most serious of all, or a completely erroneous flub on Trump's part. I cannot tell which. But either way, there is a damned whirlpool somewhere in the Indian Ocean, where Osama bin Laden spins....

* The fleeting news of a "reverse hack" on the Russians may also be extremely important. If the Clinton campaign's messages were held out as bait and used to trace the source of the hackers, and then to bust 'em open and find out who they were working with, well.... That would put us in a position to know that Donald Trump was working with the Russians, if he was, wouldn't it?

Those last two things seem really important to me. Both of them happened after Trump broke the Logan Act and asked the Russians to commit espionage for him, when he was surely being watched closely (guess who ain't going to accept "sarcasm" as a defense?). And the President is in an excellent position to know for sure if either or both of them are true.

It sure as hell looks to me as if the President knows something. And like I said, he just gave a fair warning call to Republican leadership, something that you don't give in mere politics.

From what I can tell, if he gets into the White House, Trump is free and clear. He can pardon himself, grant himself any security clearance they try to deny him, and so on. The Republican Congress won't impeach him, or at least can't be fully relied upon to do it.

So you have to get him out before the election, and as a token of good faith to your opposition, you do it now and give them exactly what they want, which is a way to get rid of Trump without picking up a nasty case of Ted Cruz. That's covered under Rule 9 of the Republican Party rules, which allows the Committee to pick Trump's successor without another convention.

There is a quote attributed to (but not actually by) Sun Tzu which spells out the solution rather nicely in this particular case: "build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across." In this case, I think it applies perfectly to gold-plated asshole Donald Trump. Place intense public and private pressure on him from all quarters. Focus the issue on something other than the security breaches. Invite the opportunity for him to seize the initiative, take his toys, and leave. If he does, the national security threat is largely solved and charges may not even be necessary, certainly not necessary to discuss as publicly as this.

But fortunately, I am known to be batshit fuckin' crazy, as my journal here at DU attests, so nobody will believe me if I am correct.