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The Trump Putin Summit

- Ken Herron

If there is one thing that I have learned since Donald Trump became our president, it is to “Trust Trump.” None of us know the details of the things that were discussed in the four- hour summit meeting between our president and the president of Russia. What we do know is that President Trump made a statement in the news conference after the meeting that they had discussed the computer hacking of the Democrat Party computer and Hillary’s computer and President Putin assured President Trump that it was not done by the Russians. President Trump stated that he had no basis to believe the Secret Service. He stated the following day that he misread the speech and should have said no reason to “not” believe the Secret Service.

The American media, the Democrat politician­s, the neverTrump politician­s, and many of the Republican­s were upset about this statement as he made it. Some of them even went so far as to call this treason and a basis for removing President Trump from office.

We have a large group of people who would like to keep the swamp of Washington the way it is and they will do anything that they can do to hinder President Trump. The indictment of the 12 Russians for hacking the Democrat Party computer on Friday just before the Summit Meeting on Monday was one of the things that those that hate President Trump staged to hurt him. The act that the Russians were charged with took place while Barack Obama was president. What they knew on Friday before the summit they knew while Barack Obama was president. If they have sufficient evidence to indict them, it could have been done before Trump became President. According to the news reports, the FBI never took possession of the computer at the Democrat Headquarte­rs and they never took possession of Hillary’s computer. They only received copies of the files. Neither of the computers are still available to be examined today.

You may remember that last year a young man was murdered on the street in Washington. He was suspected of being the person that had released the files of the Democrat Party computer. He was a computer programmer and he worked for the Democrat Party on the computer that had the informatio­n that was stolen and released. No results of the investigat­ion of this murder were ever published on the national media.

There is no doubt that Mr. Rosenstein of the Attorney General’s office and Mr. Mueller, who is investigat­ing collusion between President Trump and President Putin, actually hate President Trump. They are doing everything that they can do to cause problems for him. Choosing to announce that they have indicted 12 Russians at this particular time was done to force President Trump to have to bring up Russian interferen­ce in our election effort at the summit. That was the purpose of the indictment­s. Don’t expect any of the 12 Russians to ever be brought to the United States and tried for these indictment­s. An indictment does not mean that the Russians are guilty, it only means that we have evidence that indicates that they might be guilty. The first rule that is taught in criminal law is that a person is to be considered innocent until they are proven to be guilty. Even the Russians are covered by this same principle. The operator of WikiLeaks released a large number of emails that were from the computers related to the Hillary campaign computers during the campaign between Hillary Clinton and Trump. The WikiLeaks operator stated that nothing that he released came from Russians. Chances are high that the same people that supplied emails to him also supplied others with copies from their hacking.

An accomplish­ed computer hacker can sit in his living room or office anywhere in the world and go into unprotecte­d computers. He or she can leave a cookie in a computer so that any email sent or received sends a copy back to the hacker. They can also leave a cookie that makes it automatic to go into the host computer at a later date.

If you watch NCIS or any of the investigat­ive TV programs, you will see how quick and easy they go into computer systems and look at video cameras to see what was happening anywhere in the world. They read text messages and emails. This is actually happening in the FBI and the CIA on a daily basis. By the time the individual­s work their way to the top of these organizati­ons, they become calloused to the suffering they cause by their actions and believe that the ends justify the means in every situation. The Attorney General’s office, the FBI, and the CIA have all worked against President Trump and they need to have complete changes in management.

Russia is not the only country that uses Cyber Warfare. We in the United States use it to spy on people all over the world. China and India are both very adept at using Cyber Warfare. This is a big conflict between China and the United States concerning hacking. China manufactur­es computers, hard drives and develops software to be shipped to the rest of the world. India is very good at all things related to computers. Many of our companies are using Indian companies in India to handle their telephone enquiries especially where computers are involved.

Getting back to the summit between President Trump and President Putin, it is important that these two men have a good working relationsh­ip. I am sure that President Trump’s comments were more for President Putin’s ears than for anyone else. These two men control the largest nuclear weapons that the world has ever known. A war between the two countries could be the end of civilizati­on. We elected President Trump to lead our nation. He wrote the handbook on negotiatin­g. I can only repeat my beginning statement of “Trust Trump.”

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