Aragorn said:
Also, as was said in some article (can't remember which), Trump most certainly is getting advice from his lawyers all the time of what to say, which way, and what not to say. Regarding him "agreeing" on the Russian hacking, I suspect that he needed to say that in order to avoid impeachment for treason, for betraying his country, for being a Russian agent ;)
I suspect what you and others say is probably more or less correct.
The element which interests me, however, is the pattern; Truman wasn't particularly interested in pursuing Russians either, but found himself leveraged into negative action by public pressure which then spun out of control with secret service involvement.
Trump has already announced vague but wide-reaching plans to overhaul cyber security. Fair enough. But that's where the next Russia-hunt and freedom curtailing seems to be building to take place. SOTT has already been denounced as Fake News in support of Russia, so I'll definitely be wanting to keep an eye on how Trump's position evolves in that regard.
Perhaps I'm being overly anxious, but I feel like the probabilities are wobbling on a knife edge.
In any case, Trump remains for me a Schrodinger's cat in terms of trust and hope, etc. -I mean.., nobody really makes much of the fact that he drew his fortune from the landlord/rent game, which I consider one of the most vile means of extracting energy from a population, locking down the creative principle to an extent on par with the credit/debt banking scam. What sort of human chooses to do that to another? To thousands of others? So.., a mark against.
But.., handing his sons control of his business ventures? Hey, that's a great show of good will. A mark in the plus column! -Except... Even if he intends the gesture with some genuine heart, how does that, really, bear any difference from the standard format "Revolving Door" politics we all roll our eyes at when we see it practiced by everybody else striding between politics and business?
sigh.
To be fair, he's still not even entered office yet, so there's really nothing for it but to wait and see.
I know what I'm hoping for, but I do get jittery when he endorses sensationalist falsehoods even for well-intended political purposes. That's how Truman allowed himself to get suckered into launching the Communist witch hunt era.
I hope Trump handles the challenge with more grace, but I suspect those small butterfly moments at the podium probably count for a fair bit more than might be apparent.
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