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As if 2020 is also no more surprising, the United States once again unearses itself by discussing a new scandal that surrounds the White House, but with a familiar theme: Russia. The difference with this, however, is the speed with which Republican leaders come out in defense of the president.
Or how fast that’s never the case.
Considerations about the lacheck scandal report from CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post that officials from the Russian army intelligence agency, known as GRU, have presented to pay coins to Taliban militants in Afghanistan on display for the murder or wounding of American soldiers. An additional report through The Washington Post on Sunday reported that the scheme caused injury and deaths of some service members.
Reports of what the Russians have done, while painful, do not appear to be what has the White House on their heels; This is what the White House didn’t do in response. On Friday, the New York Times first reported that elements of the intelligence networks had verified the movements of the Russians in early spring, a conclusion that came amid ongoing peace talks with the Taliban. President Trump was reportedly affected by intelligence discovery at a National Security Council assembly after March and gained a variety of retaliatory features to consider. Reports indicate that he has not yet taken much of those steps, and has in fact spoken several times to Russian President Vladimir Putin because of the conclusions.
In reaction to reports of Russian movements and his own intelligence wisdom, President Trump denies being influenced by Russian movements. “Intel just told me they didn’t find this wisdom believable and didn’t inform me or @VP,” he said in a Sunday night tweet. For its part, Russia has also denied the accusations.
The new scandal comes a few months after President Trump was acquitted of the indictment in which he was charged with serious crimes and misdemeanors applicable with his direct decision to suspend aid to Ukraine. The president has also been harassed by repeated accusations of awkward, even inappropriate, relations with Russia and its president. Despite speculation, the president and his supporters, adding countless Congressional leaders, relentlessly keep the president unlessly opposed to the accusations, which they call “Russia’s deception.”
But much has been replaced in more than a month because the president celebrated his acquittal of political trial in a triumphant State of the Union address. The counterattack has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic that has sickened more than 2.6 million Americans and killed more than 128,000, making the United States the most affected country in the world. The world economy is shocked and the country has also been shaken by waves of protests sparked by the killings of unarmed black Americans at the hands of the police. The president’s reaction to these multiple crises has been heavily criticized, even through members of his own party, and his polls have dropped dramatically, and some polls suggest that his approval score is less than 40%. Mabig Apple field polls also put him behind his presidential rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, through 10 percentage points in a nationwide game.
All of these reasons are too different for a president who relies on his supporters in Congress to serve as explanations and apologists of his movements, even assuming they find his movements inexcusable. His defensive attitude is the result of the president’s popularity with his Republican base that has been an urgent threat to those who defy him. But as the president’s popularity weakens in the face of upcoming challenges, the big apple of the same Congressional leaders could be reluctant to line up with a wounded president whose re-election clients now seem misplaced.
More importantly, the issue of the self-providing scandal is deeply troubling to the mabig apple on Capitol Hill, where loyalty to those who serve in the armed forces is sacrosanct. While the Russian election scandal and the Ukraine-related trial of political judgment have been seen through the mabig apple Republicans as a broad “nothing at all,” the imaginable deaths at the hands of Russian-funded mercenaries are deeply troubling, especially if the president knew this by not acting. . With all the contraception in the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate for re-election, the prospect of being an apologist for the death of American infantrymen is never a very attractive prospect.
As a result, the hot scandal can also widen a larger gap between the president and a party leader who is as tiring to Trump as the country in general. While some Republicans, like those who founded the fiery Lincoln Project, are emerging from the shadows to confront the president, the giant Republicans on the block have quietly done so, and have continued to help him reluctantly.
But as the country rapidly rolls towards the November elections, many GOP leaders and elected officials are going to seriously consider how the President’s sinking chances of reelection impact their own electoral plans. As a result, the topic of Russian bounties and the scandal it sparked will no doubt be a factor in their willingness to step up or step back as defenders of Trump. When asked about Trump’s actions and inactions, will these leaders want to be talking about bounties or ballots?
We’ll be out soon.
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