2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I really like Robby Mook, (hey, he's a Vermonter) but this was just shark jumping [View all]karynnj
(59,501 posts)I completely get your reaction -- as this really is an incredible attack. A major party nominee with extensive ties to Russia, who has favorably compared the former KGB leader Putin to Obama repeatedly.
For anyone of either of our ages, this is absolutely stunning. It should be documented and great care should be taken not to go 1 centimeter over what is provable. If that is done and this information becomes available and was believed, I would guess that Trump's numbers on all of us who lived through the cold war -- especially the generation that came of age in WWII -- would look like his numbers with the youngest voters!
Remember that the Republicans tried to make an issue of Bill Clinton, as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, visiting Russia!
This IS a real issue. We really do NOT know what Trump's foreign policy will be or who he will really listen to. One thing that is clear is he has an admiration of authoritarian dictators that is unprecedented in ANY former nominee of a major party.