GOP Senator Gets Desperate And Claims Trump Is Too Incompetent to Collude with Russia

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GOP Senator Gets Desperate And Claims Trump Is Too Incompetent to Collude with Russia

By Sarah Jones on Tue, Jun 6th, 2017 at 2:13 pm

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and a former senior Trump campaign official say Trump couldn't have colluded with Russia because he doesn't even collude with his own staff.


Guys, you can all take a break from vigilantly checking to see if you need to fly the Russian flag now or not, because Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and a former senior Trump campaign official say Trump couldn’t have colluded with Russia because he doesn’t even collude with his own staff.

It’s a pretty basic attempt at an incompetence defense:

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“Is Trump too incompetent to conspire with his own staff!?” This question is a red herring. It seems like it might fit since Trump is obviously incompetent at his job, but that is only when people apply their definition of what a President should be doing. Trump’s definition is obviously different – he’s using the presidency to make a lot of money and a lot of deals, for one thing. And he hasn’t been so incompetent at violating ethics rules. Somehow the bungler in chief manages just fine when it comes to pocketing some profit.

The real question here is if Trump is so incompetent that Republicans don’t think he could collude with the Russians, when he actually did so IN PUBLIC when he told them to hack Hillary Clinton during a speech and passed on messages to praise their response to then President Obama’s increased sanctions, then why are Republicans enabling Trump to continue on as President?

If he can’t “collude” with the Russians because he can’t “collude” with anyone the way Graham is using it, why is he in the White House.

Don’t fall for the Trump is an idiot defense, or the attempts to blame all of the various people around him. The poison is coming from the top, and while Trump is wildly incompetent at the job of being a statesman and an adult man, he is really good as a con artist and showman.

Don’t fall for the easy parody of Trump as the idiot or underestimate his abilities and his ruthlessness. This excuse is complete rubbish, and Graham knows better.