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No Stopping: Yet another Trump administration folly

By Michael Townsend

Again?
This is the thought that many people had when they heard about the Trump administration’s latest controversy. This time, the offending staffer is recently-sworn-in Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and once again the problem here has to do with Russia. This controversy is a carbon copy of the Michael Flynn controversy, where the former Trump National Security Advisor was pressured to resign due to leaked evidence that he had unauthorized communication with Russian ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak. Sessions is under investigation for having unauthorized communication with Russian ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak. Sound familiar?
To plead ignorance to the chaotic nature of the Trump administration is essentially an admission to living under a rock. An oft-quoted analogy is the likening of Trump’s budding presidency to a political satire that is all too unfunny due to the fact that it is very real. Sessions’ offense constitutes yet another nod to the unwelcome Russians in the corner, a presence that has been around since just after the election, and is by no means comforting. For Sessions to lie under oath about his contact with the Russians contradicts the very statement Sessions himself made in 1998 concerning the moral outrageousness of Bill Clinton’s lie under oath about his notorious sex scandal: “”I have no doubt that perjury qualifies under the Constitution as a high crime.” Well guess what Jeff? Perjury is defined as lying under oath, and saying you had no communications with the Russians under oath when you in fact did have communications with the Russians constitutes perjury. Being a hypocrite and committing perjury aren’t exactly making America great again.
The most bizarre thing about this incident is that it is the latest in a chain of similar incidents. Really, Donald Trump? You can’t even create a semblance of keeping a handle on your administration. Something goes wrong, you say nothing’s wrong, and then you blame all incident on the “fake news media.” Well guess what Donald? The “fake news media” isn’t having friendly interaction with a hostile country and then committing perjury about it. The “fake news media” isn’t coming up with a bunch of fake terrorist attacks and using them to support a racist and xenophobic executive order to keep many Muslims out of the United States. The “fake news media,” while it does exist, is not the New York Times and Washington Post, who have been honestly covering your administration just like anyone else’s administration. The “fake news media” is Stephen K. Bannon, former head of Breitbart, the forum for alt-right ideas. The name ring a bell? It should. He’s the chief strategist that you hand-picked to lead this freak show of an administration.
My take on all of this is that our country is being compromised. Something isn’t quite right when not one, but two administration officials come under fire for a national security threat. Sorry Republicans, but this isn’t a political issue anymore. It never was. And now your inactivity is compromising the very well being of this country. If you don’t rush to an investigation of the relationship between the Trump administration and the Russian government, then history will not be kind to you. And Jeff Sessions, you should submit your resignation as a result of not just the perjury you committed, but as a result of the danger you have helped to put our country in. It is time for somebody to stand up for our country and its long-beheld values, rather than allow this purely un-American president to unravel this country step by step.

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