As I listened and read about this disaster yesterday most people were asking why Trump did this and most of them were giving basically three options or just choosing to claim they were baffled by why he would openly betray the country he is the president of. Keep in mind here there is no question the Russians through the direction of Putin conducted an attack on our electoral process to benefit Russia. Our law enforcement and intelligence agencies have hard forensic evidence that proves this. We have indicted through Robert Mueller's investigation Russian military intelligence officers we have proof conducted the attack. Putin is our enemy in a big way. He is also the enemy of our allies that Trump has been pissing all over. Putin's people still have an ongoing operation to attack the electoral process in our country and in several countries of our allies and has recently murdered people on our allies soil...which is the equivalent of murdering people in the United States. There is no question what our posture should be toward Putin...and Trump kneeling for the man is not it. Why did he do it?

Here were the three options:

1. He's just an imbecile that has no idea what he is doing. We can say we know this is true. He ignored all advice from his own intelligence people, ignored all of the evidence against Putin and Russia, and literally got on his knees for Vladimir Putin in a disgusting display of servitude to the man while calling his own country foolish and stupid...with Putin absolutely glowing next to him.

2. He does not care about the United States and is acting in his own interests. This is always true about Trump. Russia is no trading partner nor any kind of partner to the United States. However, Russia has since the 1980s put a lot of money into the Trump coffers. Trump still desires to do business in and with Russia through his family companies. So, he has great financial interest in being pals with the Russians...this benefits only him and his family but not the United States.

3. He is working for Putin. The claim here is he is on Putin's team through something Putin has on him or again through his own self interest. Obviously, nobody has yet exposed if Putin does have kompromat on Trump but it sure looks like he does. Yesterday when directly asked that question Putin did not deny that he does...and with Trump on his knees next to Putin and looking rather pathetically nervous, well, it would not surprise me. However, the public does not yet know if he does and so we can't say with any certainty if this is why Trump remains so submissive to Vlad.

Putting aside what we do not know, if there is kompromat, we do clearly know that Trump is always only concerned about Trump. Not the people of the United States and he certainly has no interest in our allies. So, to me with all of the financial ties between Trump and his family with the Russians and Trump's future business considerations with Russia I think we can safely say that a giant part of Trump's motivation here is financial benefit to himself.

If anybody has any interest in this conversation I will put some pieces of the puzzle together in this thread as we discuss this.

I would love to have somebody like Marc actually participate in this conversation...basically to find out if he still supports this menace and why...but I think he is long gone.

So, feel free to weigh in on what happened yesterday and why you think Trump openly betrayed the United States. This is an historic moment and we have never had a US president do this.