{"id":4580,"date":"2017-05-31T19:26:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T19:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=4580"},"modified":"2017-05-31T19:26:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T19:26:30","slug":"is-trump-a-russian-fsb-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=4580","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump a Russian FSB Agent?"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, of course he isn’t. The Russian intelligence services would\u00a0never<\/em> allow an agent of theirs to behave in such a foolish way; at most he is a useful idiot<\/a>. But whose antics are getting to the point where the\u00a0idiot<\/em> part is outweighing the\u00a0useful<\/em> part.<\/p>\n

Even ignoring the political shenanigans of doing almost the complete opposite of what he said he would do (decimating public spending on health care is going to come as a bit of a surprise to many of his supporters) :-<\/p>\n

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  1. Trump allegedly tried to pressure several intelligence agency heads into stopping investigations into the “Russian connection”.<\/li>\n
  2. Trump\u00a0fires<\/em> the head of the FBI whilst that head was involved in investigating the “Russian connection”; whilst this was allegedly done because Comey’s performance during the investigation of Hilary Clinton’s email situation was sub-par, it\u00a0looks<\/em> like an attempt to stop the investigation.<\/li>\n
  3. Trump allegedly has private meetings with Russian officials in the oval office where he allegedly calls the former head of the FBI a “nut job” and that his firing takes off the pressure of the “Russian connection” investigation.<\/li>\n
  4. Trump allegedly shows highly classified intelligence information to Russian officials in the oval office. Imagine this happening during the cold war era!<\/li>\n
  5. Trump in trying to deny the above lets slip that the source of the intelligence was an Israeli agent embedded within ISIS; if that agent survives, he or she is owed a free slap at him.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This all goes well beyond political naivety and well into the realm of complete stupidity. It doesn’t take much sense to realise that interfering with an investigation into the “Russia connection” is a spectacularly dumb move. And releasing classified information and then to top that by leaking the source is criminally stupid and quite possibly treasonous.<\/p>\n

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    No, of course he isn’t. The Russian intelligence services would\u00a0never allow an agent of theirs to behave in such a foolish way; at most he is a useful idiot. But whose antics are getting to the point where the\u00a0idiot part is outweighing the\u00a0useful part. Even ignoring the political shenanigans of doing almost the complete opposite […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1373,1540,1486,1487],"class_list":["post-4580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-potus","tag-trump","tag-trumpidity","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-1bS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4581,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions\/4581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}