Thread by @donmoyn

Trump made plain in public what we already know: he will side with Putin over his own intelligence agencies and Senate on election meddling.
This is a giant, flashing green light to Russia to continue to attack US democracy.

If you showed an alien viewing this presser they would conclude that Democrats and witches - and not Russia - are the primary threat to the United States.

Just watch this. Trump hammers the FBI about election meddling, then says his Dir of National Intelligence: "said, ‘I think it is Russia.’ I have President Putin. He just said it is not Russia. I will say this: I do not see any reason why it would be.”

Start your impeachment case with this: foreign policy is where the President has greatest policymaking power is. Trump has alienated friends, hurt our security alliances, and is unable for whatever reason, to stand up to enemies. Its too great a risk to continue.

There is so much conspiratorial thinking about Trump that it is easy to dismiss the case that the President is compromised in some way. But the accumulated evidence is certainly enough to suggest Congress needs to do more to reassure the public.
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