In what universe would Americans’ minds and elections be tampered with by a foreign government and President Obama or President Bush or Presidents Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, Truman, Lincoln or anyone else be allowed just to say, “Oh, well.”
More than that, in what universe would Americans – especially Congress members – allow any of those presidents to say to his attorney general, ” stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now” – that hunt being to get the criminals who have and are tampering with American democracy?
There is no universe in which our Congress would not have stood up to any one or all of those previous presidents had they demanded a stop to any probe of a foreign power trying to undermine our country and elections. In fact, they did stand up and say no to two of those previous presidents over other issues that were bad but not as frightening as having our arch foreign enemy literally manipulating our social media and trying to manipulate our polling places.
There is, however, apparently a universe in which this Congress is so afraid of an unstable and compromised president that most of its majority members will not take action to protect America or its citizens against President Donald Trump. It was Trump who tweeted that “stop” demand to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday. And it is Trump who has failed to pursue any real action to counter Russia’s cyber meddling.
We’re not talking just about the 2016 election anymore.