Connect the espionage dots - Trump to Russia "If you are listening"

Even White House adviser Reince Priebus won't deny the Trump to Russia communications link.
Priebus held the party line on news coverage of President Donald Trump on Friday, dismissing reports about scrutiny into the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia as exaggerated without saying, definitively, that none of the president’s associates contacted the country before the election.
Priebus refuses to say that there was no contact between Trump campaign and Russian intelligence- reports DailyKos
by Mark Sumner

A Don Knotts impersonation: So, I'm just sayin' Russia did communicate, just that it wasn't like what fake news is reporting, but, of course, there was some communications only not exactly what is said about how it was reported...or something like that.
Does Priebus look like Don Knotts, God Rest His Soul, or whaaaa?

Russian eavesdropping is so much a part of the country's national life, it's like knowing there will be heavy traffic while driving in New York City.  To believe otherwise is fanciful thinking. There's plenty of eavesdropping trafficking going on with the Russians.

Which is precisely why 17 international intelligence agencies are not saying anything to deny the espionage disclosed by a former British operative with M16, the equivalent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). A dossier with salacious intelligence exits. Only Donald Trump is denying the authenticity. In the dossier, it describes what Donald Trump did with his free time while he was in Russia during the 2012 Miss Universe Contest, which he hosted in Moscow.  Since that time, Donald Trump's son, "Junior" has given interviews where he's admitted to Trump investments in Russia. Nevertheless, at a raucous press conference led by Donald Trump on Feb 16, 2017, we heard the lies denying any investments or deals with Russia. 

Yet, evidence overwhelmingly supports the contrary. There's the M16 espionage report, there's the admitted communications between Lt. General Flynn with the Russian Ambassador which Trump denies directing and there's his son "Junior" having given interviews admitting to doing lucrative deals with Russia.  At the root of this chaotic information is one four letter word:  L I E S.  Donald Trump does not know how to tell the truth. As a result, America is in peril while enduring his unwieldy leadership.

Here's what Sumner reports in DailyKos:
“....fake news” has been defined as any news not favorable to Trump, so it’s easier to translate between Trumpese and English. Take for example this interview with oft-forgotten (especially inside the White House) Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. (Oh, yeah, him?  Yikes, forgot about him.)

Priebus refuses to say “nyet” to any conversation between Trump’s team and Russia. He’s just saying that they weren’t as chatty as the press is implying.  (Obviously, having dinner with Vladimir Putin, meant Lt. General Flynn only discussed the quality of the vodka shots served with every course.)

How was the vodka, President Putin? 

A scale is developing of Russia’s level of involvement with the Trump campaign. There was the senior Russian diplomat who said.

"Obviously, we know most of the people from his entourage,” Rybakov said. “… I cannot say that all of them but quite a few have been staying in touch with Russian representatives.” So that’s “quite a few” members of Trump’s team “staying in touch.”

Then there were the intelligence reports that showed. 

Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials. (HELLO? "Russia, if you are listening", is the code Donald Trump used to signal for this clandestine - or apparently not so much- communications to continue happening.)

That’s a “members … and other Trump associates” and “repeated contacts.”

Priebus says that these reports are “exaggerated.” So what would it mean if Priebus is telling the truth? Was it “some” members of Donald Trump’s campaign team “regularly” checking in with Russian intelligence? Maybe it was only “a few” members who were “occasionally” calling up Moscow. How about a “handful” who were “rarely” on the line to Putin.

Somehow, no matter what qualifiers are added, this all seems like bad news for Donald Trump … (or maybe, in his weird dictionary, meaning fake news). Meaning it's real news, because Trump calls it "fake". Surely, "fake news" has now become a euphemism for "real news" that Donald Trump just doesn't happen to like or with which he disagrees. In other words, Russian eavesdropping is fact and the Donald Trump campaign was, indeed, engaged in clandestine communications. It's irresponsible for Republicans to live in denial about the serious implications of this gruesome invasion of our national security.

Donald Trump- the emotionally inept candidate

Donald Trump goes on Russian TV to complain about the United States

Temperament requires a consistently professional response to the public, especially from a person striving to be elected a political leader. 

 But, Donald Trump, obviously, has a "labile" response to nearly everything. Ther's no consistency in his responses.  He's like the abrakadabra of wordsmiths. He says something, retracts it and then the words reappear again, someplece else.  (Daily Kos report by Mark Sumner)

Unbelievably, sometimes Donald Trump doesn't even know where he is when he is talking (or preaching!). Apparently, he needs a "huge" sign on his podium to remind him where he's speaking because recently he spoke on the decks of the US aircraft carrier while he criticized the American military.  What was he thinking? Then, his political pollster, who unsuccessfully tries to be his "surrogate", restates what Donald Trump (aka "Mr. Trump"....oh paaleeeze!) has plainly said.

Donald Trump's campaign pollster Kellyanne Conway is like Cruella deVille because she's an ineffective surrogate who re-creates words like Cruella collected unfortunate Dalmatians.

Then, in another interview, Donald Trump and "Creulla deVille" Kellyanne Conway, his campaign cartoon pollster, said that Donald Trump didn't know the Larry King interview was being broadcast in Russia.  ?? Well, Cruella di Vil, you should have advised your client about where he was when he was interviewed by Larry King becasue, obviously, Donald Trump is unaware of his audience.

From the Daily Kos blog:

While sitting on the decks of the USS Intrepid, an aircraft carrier that survived the fury of World War II, Donald Trump maligned America’s military leadership but praised Russian strongman and dictator Vladimir Putin. 

But that was just an opening act.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticized U.S. foreign policy and the American political press corps Thursday during an interview on RT America, a state-owned Russian television network.

Despite a compliant press that has provided Trump with millions in free air time and made certain that his campaign has been top of the news ever since he rode down a gold escalator, Trump had one central focus for his attacks on America.

Asked during the RT America interview what has surprised him most about the political process, Trump unloaded on the American press.

“Well, I think the dishonesty of the media. The media has been unbelievably dishonest,” Trump responded. “I mean they’ll take a statement that you make which is perfect and they’ll cut it up and chop it up and shorten it or lengthen it or do something with it.”

Incredulously, Donald Trump is an ungrateful person, among other disparaging personality characteristics. American can't elect Trump, who is rude, crude, unprofessional and demeaning to others, even to his media creators. Most important, Americans can't elect a leader who is critical of our US military while he is speaking on the decks of an American aircraft carrier where men lost their lives defending our nation- right there on the very decks where he sat during his interview with Matt Lauer.

You know what?  Russia's President Vladimir Putin, a man who once made it his profession to co-opt American spies, can have Donald Trump.  They deserve one another.

Nevertheless, as evil as the dictator and serial assassin Putin is, at least his responses to the public are consistent. Donald Trump, on the other hand, is emotionally inept.