As Steve Schmidt said, this will be the most important election in US history. That means that the Democratic leadership, Pelosi, Schumer, and Tom Perez, head of the DNC, should take strong actions to see that this will be the greatest voter turnout in American history. If that happens the Republicans will go down in flames.
American voters need to fully understand how members of the Republican Party have clearly aided and abetted this president in portraying this Russian meddling as nothing to worry about, to try to make people think our democracy has not been attacked.
Perhaps Republicans can't be accused of being complicit in obstruction of justice but they can, in the eyes of voters, be seen as being disloyal to their country.
Things are getting more and more bizarre as this president seems to be rapidly imploding. Just recently the American people witnessed something that was stunning, astounding, and incomprehensible.
The heads of America's 5 top intelligence agencies made a White House presentation in which all of them unequivocally stated that there was no question whatsoever that the Russians had interfered in the 2016 election, that they had attacked our democracy, and are still doing it.
And they further said that they were going to do everything in their power to put a stop to it.
That same night I saw Trump speaking at a rally. He totally went against what these intelligence heads said about Russia infringement. He said that the entire Mueller investigation was a hoax. He doesn't even hide the fact that he has no intention of doing anything about it.
That is unbelievable, incomprehensible. It adds greatly to the belief that this president is doing things against the best interests of this country. And what might we call that kind of disloyal behavior by an American president?
Such incomprehensible behavior by this president makes it imperative that Mueller issues some kind of report. The longer Mueller strings this investigation out the more he will give the naysayers the opportunity to say that he is stalling because he has no concrete proof of wrongdoing.
It's amazing how Trump is not the least bit disturbed about the Russian hacking. He continues to refuse to accept what these intelligence agencies say happened and insists that Russia and Putin did nothing wrong. He has called Putin is a great leader who he greatly admires. He comes across as Russia's and Putin's defense attorney and a staunch defender. He appears to be groveling at the feet of Putin.
So the Democratic plan should be: In the 2018 elections remove Republicans from control. Of Congress. And then in 2020, complete the job and send Trump into political oblivion.
Michael Payne
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