If The Russians Engineered a Trump Victory

[Galen]

(03-13-2017, 10:56 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(03-12-2017, 11:07 PM)Galen Wrote:

(03-12-2017, 08:47 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

Quote:Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said in an interview Sunday that the Russian ambassador who met with Trump campaign officials also met with “people working in think tanks advising Hillary or advising people working for Hillary.”

I think I'll leave the link here.  Should Cause Alphabet Soup's and Odin's heads to explode.


http://thehill.com/policy/international/...to-clinton

Hardly a surprise to me.  Putin would naturally try to for a relationship with anyone likely to become president.  Only an idiot would assume that any nation wouldn't do this.

I would be more concerned if presidential candidates did not send campaign officials or vist themselves foreign diplomats.  Foreign policy is an executive prerogative and as such the responsibility of the President.  I would imagine someone applying for the job would at least know who the most important ambassadors are and invited them over for tea and sandwiches at the very least.

Not exclusively an executive function but given how Congress has abdicated much of its responsibilities in the the century this is certainly true.  I would be more worried if a President-Elect and his appointees did not talk to foreign diplomats since the outgoing President is pretty much a non-entity at that point.  Which is what the Dims are currently whining about with respect to Russia.