Kickaha wrote:
No one in the intelligence community had any evidence that that was occurring. The proper course for Trump to have followed, would have been a private call to Putin asking for his assurances that these rumors were in fact false and cautioning him of severe consequences if they were true. Without evidence, it should have been handled quietly. Of course, if Trump had come out in public with a belligerent attitude, the left would have attacked him saying he was trying to start a war.