re: #167 jaunte

Wow, there’s some standout projection.

My very very rough opening paragraph
President Trump’s remarks regarding Russia as a candidate for President of the United States should have set out serious warning alarms for Americans. Candidate Trump went out of his way to praise Vladimir Putin’s Russia while at the same time belittling the President of the United States. When Donald Trump was not attacking Barack Obama’s American birthright, he was praising the Russian president for his strength, leadership, and outsmarting President Obama. Never mind the fact that Vladimir Putin, unlike President Obama did not have to work in a nation state had separation of powers. Trump repeatedly as a candidate talked about his desire that the United States and Russia should be friends. At the same time though, he was belittling allies such as Mexico by accusing our neighbor to the south of sending rapists and murderers to the United States. Trump’s praise of Russia was not limited to his words on the campaign trail and on Twitter but also his associations. Paul Manafort, who was Trump’s second campaign manager following the firing of Corey Lewandowski had been a lobbyist for deposed Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, a key Putin ally. And of course General Michael Flynn, who in December 2015 attended a gala in Moscow in honor of Russia Today.