Why don't they all just pack up and move to Siberia?

to save their own traitorous hides. When the whole mess is exposed, and it WILL be, then we will fully understand how we have been betrayed by the gop for YEARS. Working class people should never vote republican. They represent only the wealthy, of any nationality. Just as long as the money is green, the gop plays along.

At least that’s my hypothesis based on his business contacts and his money laundering. It took decades for the FBI to bring down some of the worst New York mafia families, and it is no coincidence that several of the FBI agents with many years experience investigating Russian mafia activities were among the first targeted and ultimately fired. As even a small fish in the international Russian mafia operations (meaning he is a lieutenant, not a boss), Trump was in a unique position to disrupt US investigations into Russian criminal operations.

The reason why everyone around Trump tells the same lies about Russia is their complicity in furthering Russian interests. They have no choice but to lie and hope for the best—like Manafort. If the Mueller investigation does not bring Trump down, the Russia mafia will be stronger. Under Putin, what started out as money laundering from their rape of Russian wealth after the breakup of the USSR has become an international crime organization that is working to restructure governments around the world to be headed by totalitarian despots loyal to Putin.

Trump is certainly a despot, and no matter who is on the GOP ticket for president in 2020 I expect Russia to help that person win. They already know how to hack our voter registration and actual voting systems. It’s a small step to flip an election—as they may have already done in 2016. If 2020 polls show a close race, it’s easy to hide flipped votes as the margin of error in polls. That’s why I’m happy that we have so many strong candidates for 2020, but it will still be a hard race to win.

Add to the list the defunding of cyber-security appropriations. Apparently, the Exalted Orange Leader doesn’t view hostile foreign sources as a threat to our elections, or in his sad case, erections.

Does his idiot even realize how stupid he’s made himself look? Or, does he not care? Let’s face it, he’s out there in the open not hiding much of anything. His denials and the complicity of his wretched party are an insult to this country, and yet he will more than likely finish his term.

His defunding of cyber-security appropriations, especially to protect the integrity of our elections (and don't forget the ~ $100 million dollars appropriated by Congress to the State Dept in the 2017 budget, to protect against international cybersecurity attacks that, to my knowledge, was never spent), is for me the definitive proof that he has no interest in protecting our democracy.