The most serious counterintelligence people we have
Carl Bernstein says Mueller’s report is going to say Trump helped Putin break the US.
The Post reported that Trump has gone to “extraordinary lengths” to conceal direct conversations he has had with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Times article revealed that the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into Trump after he fired former bureau director James Comey in 2017, suspecting the president could be working on behalf of Russia. Trump has angrily denied allegations that he worked with Russia and has regularly attacked the media for reporting on the investigation. But Bernstein slammed Trump’s dismissal of the probe.
“This is about the most serious counterintelligence people we have in the U.S. government saying, ‘Oh, my God, the president’s words and actions lead us to conclude that somehow he has become a witting, unwitting, or half-witting pawn, certainly in some regards, to Vladimir Putin,’” Bernstein explained during his appearance on Reliable Sources .
“From a point of view of strength… rather, he has done what appears to be Putin’s goals. He has helped Putin destabilize the United States and interfere in the election, no matter whether it was purposeful or not,” the journalist added. He then explained that he knew from his own high-level sources that Mueller’s report would discuss this assessment.
The US itself laid the groundwork though.
Rupert Murdoch’s fingerprints are all over the groundwork that was laid, which made all of this possible.
Or no-witting? A mindless pawn?
True,but Murdoch couldn’t have done what he did either unless there were a core of people in this country (a very solid, and way too large core) that were receptive to the message. Long before Murdoch, I was hearing most of the sentiments expressed by Trump, and I was hearing them on a near daily basis from my family and the people around me. I grew up in a conservative area, and none of this surprised me. From the moment Ronald Reagan was elected, I expected a broken US. I’m only surprised it took them so long.