Calls for Trump to snub Putin absurd
Democrats had no issue with Russia when former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did her infamous “Russian Reset” or gave the Russians 20 percent of U.S. uranium.
They had no issue with Russia when former President Barack Obama was caught on a hot mic telling former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev he’d have “more flexibility” after the 2012 election.
Nor did Dems give a hoot when Bill Clinton pocketed a cool $500,000 from a Russian investment bank for a one-hour speech in Moscow when his wife ran the U.S. State Department.
But when Trump points out that he needs to talk to Vladimir Putin, the leader of a rival world power? Liberals and their puppets in media accuse him of “collusion.” Quite ridiculous given that collusion isn’t a crime and to date the special counsel has found no evidence of either a crime or collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians in the 2016 election — despite 18 months of relentless digging.
In case liberals haven’t noticed, American presidents and their administrations often speak and meet with foreign leaders, including adversaries. It’s called foreign policy. Trump was smart not to cancel his summit with Putin today despite the tweets from U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and hypocritical demands from congressional Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
Yes, the Justice Department last week announced 12 Russian military intelligence officers hacked into the DNC servers and Republican and Democrat campaigns during the 2016 election. If that’s true, it requires a strong response. We don’t want foreign adversaries committing cybercrimes against the U.S. But it’s no reason to cancel an important summit with a key superpower.
After all, a 2016 congressional investigation found the Obama administration’s State Department meddled in Israel’s 2015 parliamentary election in an effort to block its Iran deal chief nemesis, Benjamin Netanyahu, from getting re-elected.
And the Los Angeles Times reported in 2016, “The U.S. has a long history of attempting to influence presidential elections in other countries — it’s done so as many as 81 times between 1946 and 2000, according to a database amassed by political scientist Dov Levin of Carnegie Mellon University.”
Why don’t left-wing talking heads mention that?
Here are the facts. President Trump has been tougher on Russia than his predecessors. The Trump administration is arming Ukraine in its war with Russian-backed separatists. Trump has repeatedly imposed punitive sanctions. He’s expelled 60 Russian diplomats and mothballed the Russian consulate in Seattle. Trump is also trying to get NATO ally Germany to cancel its natural gas pipeline deal with Russia and get its energy from us instead — which would be a massive financial blow to the Kremlin.
But liberals never let facts get in the way of pushing conspiracy theories of “Russian collusion” with Trump. #SAD