(Los Angeles Times) — Putin’s government is “trying to subvert our democracy,” Rep.Trey Gowdy [R.S.C] said. “Americans — not Democrats or Republicans — are the victims.”
WASHINGTON — Before Friday, when special counsel Robert Mueller delivered a damning grand jury indictment against Russians for 2016 election meddling, it was much easier for President Donald Trump to dismiss the entire inquiry as a Democratic hoax and witch hunt.
Trump had long sought to discredit claims of Russian interference, suggesting that email hacks of the Democratic National Committee might instead have been the Chinese, North Korea or a even a hacker sitting in his bedroom.
Those difficulties were apparent in a series of 15 Twitter posts over 19 hour late Saturday and early Sunday — an unusual outburst even for Trump. In one, he attempted to conflate the Mueller investigation with the FBI’s failure to act on warnings about the man accused of being the Florida school massacre shooter.
Click to continue reading. By Tracy Wilkinson – Feb 18, 2018.