President Trump's former campaign manger Paul Manafort, Richard Gates (Manafort's assistant) and George Papadopoulos were indicted by a federal grand jury on Monday on various charges including lying to the FBI and money laundering. President Trump tried to up stage the coming indictments a few days before the announcement by claiming the investigation was a witch hunt and fake news. The usual pronouncements by the President who knows he is in trouble. The republicans in congress followed Trump's lead and was critical of the investigation also. It has become the ditto heads religion of Trump and his party.
After the indictments were made public, Trump and his press secretary tried to down play the indictments and Trump said Papadopoulos was a low level guy. However, he told the Washington Post in 2016 that he was an excellent guy and even appointed him to his foreign policy advisory council. Trumps appointment of Manafort and Papadopoulos to important positions and their relationships with Russia is un-raveling.
And now Twitter and Facebook are admitting that ads and commentary published over their social networks by Russian operatives in thousands of tweets and commentary were slanted to promote Trump and discredit Hillary Clinton. It is all coming together, the cooperation or Russia (the U.S. major adversary) and the Trump Presidential campaign to manipulate our country's democratic elections. More and more we can understand why Trump will not make his tax returns public.
As the investigation continues and more indictments are handed down the web of deceit between Russia and the Trump campaign will be exposed. And the trumpet man will continue to try and corrupt our political system with his lies and fake news. Make no mistake, Hillary Clinton is still a better woman than Trump is a man. Trump knows it and that is why he still tries to blame her for what ever comes to mind. How sad for a President of the United States.
NOTE: When Facebook and Twitter executives testified before congress concerning Russian use of their social network to influence the 2016 Presidential election it was disclosed that Fox News and other conservative news media outlets republished and used the Russian slander articles against Hillary Clinton even though they knew the source of the slander. And of course, individuals who support Trump repeated that on their Facebook page and Twitter accounts. And we are talking about thousands of ads and commentary that were designed to damage Clinton and support Trump's campaign for election. The lies and fake news did not matter to those who supported the trumpet man.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
