From my web site, originally poasted on Facebook:
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I know I'm going to catch some flack for this but here it is...
Trump -personally- does not have any nefarious ties to Putin or Russia. There are quite possibly some operators in his orbit who have entanglements in that way; there's certainly more than enough evidence of shady connections to support the contention that people *near* Trump have been engaged in shenanigans up to and including the treasonous variety. But Trump himself? I no longer believe so.
If you're still reading instead of Unfriending and/or Blocking me, I'll try to lay out how I reached this conclusion and let you be the judge of whether I'm onto something or losing my mind.
As I watched the Comey debacle unfold it suddenly struck me again on a whole new level:
Trump is an idiot. Trump is a thin-skinned ball of ineptitude dipped in ignorance, sprinkled with bullshit, and wrapped in narcissism. Trump is half con man and half carnival barker but excels at neither.
Donnie is most emphatically not a Lex Luthor. Not even close. Trump wouldn't even make a decent minion; he'd be constantly blowing covers, spilling secrets, and ruining plans with his oblivious braggadocio and hamfisted self-dealing.
There's only one thing Don sort of knows; it still rules his thinking to this very day- and that thing is branding. The same brand that's on his buildings, all of his "luxury" products, his so-called university, and everything else Don has tried (but mostly failed) to sell. Trump. The brand is the man and the man is the brand, inextricably entwined. Donnie didn't run for president because he wanted to *be* president much less because he had any interest in public service. Don ran for president as a means to expand and elevate his brand.
All of Don's missteps, lies, and seemingly guilt-ridden behavior that the democrat-leaning news organizations are determined to attribute to some sort of evidence that Donnie is in collusion with a foreign government are actually no more than the buffoonish attempts of a self-important moron trying to protect his brand.
Merely having his name associated -even peripherally- with an FBI investigation is unacceptable to Donnie because it's poisonous to his brand. If Don was still a private citizen and anyone so much as accused him of being investigated what would Donnie do? The same thing he has always done in such circumstances: he would have lawyered up and sued somebody. Only now that's not an option and it's driving poor Don literally insane.
Stop trying to turn Don into a supervillian.
He's simply not bright or adept enough to mastermind a complex multinational plot... hell, you couldn't even let him play any significant role in such an endeavor or he'd definitely find a way to fuck it up.
He's just a lummox who can't abide the name "Trump" being tarnished. It was and still is the only thing about which he actually cares.
That Don is only making things worse by flailing around and, as usual, mistaking brash ill-considered action for competent decision-making shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. It's a pattern that Don has repeated over and over throughout his career as a snake-oil salesman.
I don't know if it will make anyone feel better to consider that our president may only be a self-absorbed jackass instead of a treasonous villain, but there it is. Until and unless proven otherwise I will presume all of Donnie's future outrageous public relations disasters to be the result of him simply being a fuckwit; no Putin involvement necessary.
