I agree. Rosenstein betrayed Trump when he hired Mueller. Why Mueller is allowed to go outside the scope of Russia-Trump collusion is beyond me? But this is what the Dems do. And let's not be calling him a "loyal conservative". Remember when the Dems had a team of liberal (pretty much includes 95% of them) reporters go up to Alaska and try to find dirt on Sarah Palin? and they found nothing. There is some kind of connection there between Comey, Mueller, McCabe, and Rosenstein and they have each other's back. I know they worked on the Uranium One deal back in 2010 together, but other than that I'm not sure of the connection.

Pull your head out of the FOX sand, there has been a steady stream of charges and guilty pleas. Nothing there? Have you no awareness of the fact that Mueller is dealing with Trump people who could be looking at sentences of over ten years to life? This is not things made up against them, these are illegal things that is the way they did business. These guys did business with Russian crooks who stole billions from Russia. Trump has done real estate deals that would seem to be money laundering. There is no ignorance defense on doing certain kinds of business with crooks. Crooks do business with crooks, not innocent dummies. Trump is no dummy when it came to the type of real estate dealings he was doing with Russians.

Eyes wide open here guys, Trump knew exactly who he was dealing with and what he was doing. A real estate deal where way over or under market to facilitate money laundering is obvious, and nobody involved is an unwitting dupe being unwittingly used.

You make the perfect point about not wanting someone looking over your shoulder. Being president means someone is always looking over your shoulder. No president before Trump ever had a single minute alone with Putin, there is no reason for that. Phone calls are supposed to be recorded and with witnesses, and are a matter of public record. This is so that there is never any doubt about impropriety of any kind.

I said before Trump announced that he was going to run that there was no way, it couldn't be possible that Trump would put his business and tax deals through the microscope he would be by even running, let alone winning. If you have laundered money it creates a tax nightmare. The tax trail of legitimizing laundering deals creates a tax reflection because you are paying taxes on a lot of money that you are giving back to the person cleaning up there money.

So to take a situation where Trump already was going to end up under scrutiny, he brings in a boatload of people who had been dealing with Russian oligarchs for years. Every person coming into Trump's orbit is under a microscope. Then when many of them were already under FBI scrutiny Trump comes under the same investigations already underway.

This was stupidity, and has predictable results, rather than blindly support and defend, how about paying attention and applying some common sense to what was done and whether it's okay.

You forget something key to this. The "secret memo" simply widened the scope of things that could be involved in the task at hand.

Here's the most important fact of all. If Trump had nothing to do with any contacts with Russia throughout the campaign, he has nothing to worry about.

We know beyond any shadow of a doubt that Trump's campaign staff was full of people who had been dealing with Russians for many years. They were money and influence brokers, their brands of consulting had to do with brokering influence and sales, and money laundering in some cases. They were conducting business like this in ways that were not above board in that they were intentionally not being open about their businesses. They were often taking large sums of cash and not paying taxes on it. All of this activity has a paper trail, and when these players go through convoluted shell companies designed to hide money it's that much more incriminating.

If Trump is innocent, if he had no knowledge of people he was involved with being involved in Russian cyber influence, then it will be shown he is innocent. If those in his campaign and transition were, it unfortunately rubs off on Trump. Trump's campaign and transition is Trump, the election is Trump.

Pay attention to facts. The FBI knows that Flynn called his Russian big wig contact as Trump was being inaugurated, assuring him that the sanctions would be lifted. The administration made it clear that job one was lifting sanctions and giving Russia back their two spy compounds Obama had taken away. The first day of office the GOP lifted the requirement that US corporations disclose any money transferred to foreign interests, thereby allowing Exxon to proceed with giving Putin $500 Billion for their oil deal.

Nothing has been done to crank down security on state computers we know were hacked, efforts that were underway were defunded and stopped....

This is keeping America safe? No problem with Russia interfering in elections as long as they support Republicans? Hey, we know they were active in cyber influence, but hey, it didn't affect the election so so what?

We are already finding out that the cyber games Russia was involved in were much more sophisticated than was thought to be the case, we will find out it went even deeper than that. And the right has already been conditioned to say so what, who cares?

Obama was one step away from declaring war with Russia, cyber warfare. He threatened Putin openly with leaking the whereabouts of tens of billions of dollars he had stolen from the Russian people. And Trump steps into this degree of threat with warm and fuzzy good feelings for his friend Putin. This should make anyone who cares about this country feel a little bit freaked out.

I would feel a whole lot better about Trump if he just backed the hell off of the Putin friendship thing. He has no reason to meet with Putin, there isn't a thing he needs to say between these countries that can't be said in open meetings. Diplomatic relations are done with witnesses for a reason, and it's so that there can never be a question that the president is doing anything he isn't supposed to be doing.

I agree. Rosenstein betrayed Trump when he hired Mueller. Why Mueller is allowed to go outside the scope of Russia-Trump collusion is beyond me? But this is what the Dems do. And let's not be calling him a "loyal conservative". Remember when the Dems had a team of liberal (pretty much includes 95% of them) reporters go up to Alaska and try to find dirt on Sarah Palin? and they found nothing. There is some kind of connection there between Comey, Mueller, McCabe, and Rosenstein and they have each other's back. I know they worked on the Uranium One deal back in 2010 together, but other than that I'm not sure of the connection.