Chris ~

2648 days ago

Several motives seem to be behind this bipartisan American campaign against the President-elect, who is being equated with Russian misdeeds. One is to reverse the Electoral College vote. Another is to exonerate the Clinton campaign from its electoral defeat by blaming that instead on Putin and thereby maintaining the Clinton wing’s grip on the Democratic Party. Yet another is to delegitimate Trump even before he is inaugurated. And certainly no less important, to prevent the détente with Russia that Trump seems to seek. How, it will be asked, can the White House cooperate with Putin, who aborted our electoral process and who—as is also being loudly alleged—is committing “war crimes” in Syria?

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