For Trump to side with former KGB agent Putin over the entire US security service, can only mean that he must know there is some deep level of danger for himself personally with regard to the Muller investigation. He won't triumph over America. His time will surely come.

John Brennan, a former director of the CIA, tweeted: “Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of ‘high crimes & misdemeanors.’ It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/16/trump-finds-putin-denial-of-e...

And more from his own party...

“Today’s press conference in Helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory. The damage inflicted by President Trump’s naivety, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate. But it is clear that the summit in Helsinki was a tragic mistake.”

There was even a rebuke from the most senior elected Republican, House Speaker Paul Ryan, who said both the US intelligence community and the House intelligence committee concluded that Russia interfered in the election.

At no point did Trump criticize Putin for his anti-democratic behavior—from killing journalists, critics, and opposition politicians to raiding the country’s wealth with impunity. At no point did Trump offer even a mild challenge to Putin, deferring to the Russian president at every opportunity. There’s a reason observers were appalled at his performance: President Trump behaved as a supplicant, absolving Russia of any responsibility for the documented attacks on American election infrastructure.

Trump’s performance was shocking enough to make mild-mannered lawmakers like Virginia Sen. Mark Warner furious with indignation. “For the President of the United States to stand next to Vladimir Putin—who personally ordered one of the largest state-sponsored cyber-attacks in our history—and side with Putin over America’s military and intelligence leaders is a beach of his duty to defend our country against its adversaries,” said Warner in a statement.


https://tinyurl.com/ybfkrxll

I love it when the party who called Bush's intelligence agencies morons, incompetent imbeciles object to anything other than than a label of Sainthood now....

Predicable. Pathetic.

"The United States and Russia can disagree and still work together where our interests coincide, and they coincide in many places."

 As long as Germany doesn't do that.

The media reports everything Trump ddoes as the next step toward the apocalypse. So far, the lefties have been Wrong about everything.  But that doesn't stop them from being CERTAIN that This Time, they're right.

If Obama had gone to visit Putin he'd have a secondNobel.
The intelligence community is and has been weaponized against Trump. And protected Hillary. It's not treason to admit it.

Eegore wrote on 07/17/18 at 05:51:44:

 As long as Germany doesn't do that.

Absolutely, NO one said, Germany, Can’t do something.
It was NATO, that was Obsolete.  (Gee remember someone saying the same thing about the 2nd Adm)
And Germany Not paying it’s fair share of NATO.
USA Pays almost 2  BILLION, each year, for a Obsolete thing, to Protect some nations, which Include Germany. And Germany is expecting the USA  to PAY and DO, the ‘Protecting’, of Germany, from Russia, when Germany, does a HUGE  Dependency on Russia for their petroleum items, and is Now, INCREASING it !.