The beginning of the end for President Con-Don

Sometimes, I think my purpose in this blog is just to extract and summarize what is most relevant in the daily flood of news. This is one of those posts and the topic is the "flipping of Gates".

I owe a lot to the fine writers at Politico. (Jack Shafer)

Gates and Manafort launder money for the Russians and have done so for years...prior to the 2016 election.

Manafort was $17M in debt to Russian oligarchs at the time that he became Trump's campaign manager. (this alone is stunning and the blog post could end here)

(just as an aside...what do you think it feels like to be $17 MILLION DOLLARS in debt to billionaire Russian Mafia guys? Would that...like...influence you...at all?)

In 2010, Manafort and Gates rigged the Ukrainian election to install a Russian puppet as president of Ukraine. (so they know how to rig an election)

Manafort's level of access in Russia is quite high. He is the close friend of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska...who is a close friend of Putin.

In 2014, Russia launched a massive and prolonged effort to manipulate public opinion in favor of Trump. This expensive and extensive operation continued all thru the campaign and election and in fact...has not stopped.

Is it reasonable to believe that the shockingly long list of Trump associates with substantive and illegal involvement with shady Russians...over a stretch of many years...is completely separate from the election meddling launched by those same Russians?

One of the things that Trump does that just infuriates me is...he just says stuff. He just says that there was no Russian meddling...and then, when that becomes ludicrous even to his base...he then just says...okay there was meddling, but it had no effect on the election. How the hell does he know that? How can anyone ever know that?

Jared Kushner did what exactly during the campaign? Oh that's right, he managed the campaign's entire digital presence...facebook, twitter, and dozens of other social media platforms. Was that effective in influencing voters?

You can't say that what you were doing was effective, but what the Russians were doing wasn't effective. (Republican Consultant—Rick Tyler)

And don't forget...This pronouncement about the futility of the Russian meddling is coming from a man who told us that the election was tampered with by millions of illegal immigrant voters...which of course is false...fake news.

Trump is illegitimate!

Although Trump lost the popular tally by nearly 3 million votes nationally, he won three states that most observers expected to go to Clinton by a total margin of 77,744. Were the Russian efforts enough to have moved 77,744 votes in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania?—Huffington Post

And we know that the Russian meddling campaign specifically targeted...Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

We will never prove that Trump is illegitimate...but...it will be proven that he and his most trusted associates actively colluded with Russia to steal the election and undermine our democracy.

President Con-Don won't get away with it. No honor among thieves. His days are numbered.