For the last 24 hours, the media and the Democrats have been going crazy criticizing Preisdent Trump for saying that he would listen to a foreign government that was supplying him with "dirt" on a political opponent. The media and the Democrats are all pretending to be horrified by this answer, even though in 2016 it was the Democrats who did just what Trump is now saying he would do. After all, the Clinton campaign and the DNC both paid people to gather dirt on Donald Trump from the Russians. Then Clinton and the DNC went through all sorts of ruses to come up with a means of trying to keep that consultation with the Russians a secret.
But let's put this question of hearing "dirt" from a foreign country into proper context. It's October 10, 2020. The country is in the home stretch of a seemingly endless presidential election that pits Republican Donald Trump against Democrat Bernie Sanders. The President is in the Oval Office and he gets a call from president Xi of China on what is said to be an urgent matter. President Trump takes the call. Through a translator, the Chinese leader says the following: "Mr. President, I have some extremely urgent information for you. My intelligence service informs me and has proof that your opponent, Bernie Sanders, worked as an agent for the intelligence operation of the old Soviet Union, the KGB, during the 1980's. We have documentary proof that Sanders was an agent for your enemy at that time and we also have evidence that the Russian government of Vladimir Putin has that evidence as well. As I'm sure you recognize, this evidence that Sanders was a Soviet agent will give Putin the ability to control Sanders if he is in the White House. I am telling you this as a sign of good faith in the relations between our two countries.
So here's the question: what should President Trump do in that situation? He now has evidence that his opponent in the election committed treason by spying for the Soviet Union.
There's a variety of answers.
1. According to the mainstream media and the Democrats, the President shouldn't even discuss Sanders with a foreign power. To do so would be immoral and unethical, according to these people.
2. President Trump's answer is different. He would listen and if he thought it appropriate, he would alert the FBI.
But if you boil it all down, is there actually any American who would want our president to refuse to accept intelligence about someone who might become president just because it is coming from a foreign power? In 2016, if there actually were some Russian who provided evidence that Hillary Clinton had received a payoff of millions of dollars in exchange for approving the sale of a big chunk of America's uranium reserves to the Russians, shouldn't the American people get to hear that? Without a doubt, the answer to that question is a resounding YES.
But let's put this question of hearing "dirt" from a foreign country into proper context. It's October 10, 2020. The country is in the home stretch of a seemingly endless presidential election that pits Republican Donald Trump against Democrat Bernie Sanders. The President is in the Oval Office and he gets a call from president Xi of China on what is said to be an urgent matter. President Trump takes the call. Through a translator, the Chinese leader says the following: "Mr. President, I have some extremely urgent information for you. My intelligence service informs me and has proof that your opponent, Bernie Sanders, worked as an agent for the intelligence operation of the old Soviet Union, the KGB, during the 1980's. We have documentary proof that Sanders was an agent for your enemy at that time and we also have evidence that the Russian government of Vladimir Putin has that evidence as well. As I'm sure you recognize, this evidence that Sanders was a Soviet agent will give Putin the ability to control Sanders if he is in the White House. I am telling you this as a sign of good faith in the relations between our two countries.
So here's the question: what should President Trump do in that situation? He now has evidence that his opponent in the election committed treason by spying for the Soviet Union.
There's a variety of answers.
1. According to the mainstream media and the Democrats, the President shouldn't even discuss Sanders with a foreign power. To do so would be immoral and unethical, according to these people.
2. President Trump's answer is different. He would listen and if he thought it appropriate, he would alert the FBI.
But if you boil it all down, is there actually any American who would want our president to refuse to accept intelligence about someone who might become president just because it is coming from a foreign power? In 2016, if there actually were some Russian who provided evidence that Hillary Clinton had received a payoff of millions of dollars in exchange for approving the sale of a big chunk of America's uranium reserves to the Russians, shouldn't the American people get to hear that? Without a doubt, the answer to that question is a resounding YES.
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