POTUS ignores warnings: congratulates Putin

President Trump is behaving like a defiant, oppositional teenager. 

Trump's national security team told him not to congratulate Putin during a phone call on "winning" his reelection for a fourth term Tuesday. They even placed a section in his briefing materials that read: "DO NOT CONGRATULATE" in all-capital letters, but  they forgot to put an exclamation point at the end to show they meant it! So he congratulated Putin during the phone call.

Sad!

Trump also failed to follow aides' instructions that he condemn Putin over the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the U.K., according to The New York Post. But in defense of Trump, at least he didn't congratulate him on the successful poisoning.

The president told reporters that he offered his well wishes on Putin's new six-year term and said that he and Vladimir will "probably be meeting in the not-too-distant future."

The U.S. and U.K. are among the countries that have pointed to Russia as being responsible for the attack. Of course Russia has denied the allegations, but what's a motherland to do?

Sen. John McCain (RINO-Ariz.) said in a statement that "an American president [which he will never be] does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections. And by doing so with Vladimir Putin, President Trump insulted every Russian citizen who was denied the right to vote in a free and fair election to determine their country's future, including the countless Russian patriots who have risked so much to protest and resist Putin's regime."

On this one, I have to go along with McCain . . . but only on this one.

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A reporter asked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders whether she thought the Russian election was "free and fair." 

She told the reporter that the U.S. doesn't "get to dictate how other countries operate."

I think Trump blew it on this one. I think his need to be liked by almost everyone in the room, and his disdain of being told what to do, no matter whether the advice is good or bad, control, alt, deletes his judgment.

That is not a good thing.

And if you hate me for saying it, perhaps you need to consider if you really agree with everything Trump says and does because he's always right, or because you're seeing him as a charismatic leader.

Nobody is always right.



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