Since the federal indictment of Paul Manafort and George Papadopoulos we now learn that more contact with Russia took place during Trump's campaign never revealed before. Donald Trump Jr. had contact with Wikileaks who the CIA said received its information concerning Hillary Clinton from the Russian hacks of the DNC. Then Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General was called back to testify before congress concerning his previous statement that he knew of no contacts with the Russians by the Trump campaign. He now says he does remember but did not remember in his earlier testimony because of the chaos in the Trump campaign.
About the same time, Trump himself said he believed Putin when he said Russia did not interfere with the U.S. election. Trump also said he sided with Putin over the CIA's assessment that Russia indeed did interfere with the U.S. election. The picture that has come into focus is for the very first time EVER, a Presidential campaign was willing to work with Russia (a foreign government and adversary of the U.S.) to collect and obtain alleged damaging information on an opponent and was willing to allow Russia to influence the election in Trump's favor to win the Presidency. The treacherous acts went so far as to discuss the removing of sanctions imposed by President Obama on Russia's role in interfering with the election process of 2016.
And to top it off, candidate Trump asked Russia to tap into the emails of his opponent, an American citizen in order to find some damaging information that could be used to help his own cause. That is how close Trump, his campaign and Russia were during that period of time. And sadly, V.P. Pence also made statements about not knowing about the contacts between the campaign and Russia and when the facts were exposed, Pence had to try and clarify his statements.
Never before has any republican or democratic Presidential candidate been willing to do business with a foreign government in exchange for damaging information on an opponent. The picture exposes a business man's corrupt attitude about government and the long held values of America and its institutions. A business man that respects no one and is willing to destroy everything he touches for his own ego. With the latest revelations we see Trump trying to change the subject and wants the Attorney General to investigate Hillary Clinton, his opponent who has already been investigated by the republican controlled congress including the House intelligence committee and the FBI who failed to find any violation of the law. Clinton warned the nation about Trump and she knew what she was talking about. And now it is being played out in real time.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
