So the Washington Post and other media outlets go to James Clapper and John Brennan – who both lied to Congress and who essentially allowed Putin to do whatever he wanted in Ukraine – to say Trump is being played? One of the first things Barack Obama did upon taking office was to back away from a commitment to put up missile defense shields in the Czech Republic and Poland to appease Putin. When Putin attacked Ukraine, Obama wouldn't even provide Ukraine with defensive weapons – and that certainly pleased Putin.  I don't believe that Trump ever joked about Russian hostility being an outdated relic of the Cold War,  as Obama did to Mitt Romney prior to the 2012 election. Trump didn't allow Russia to get American uranium to spread around, and Trump never promised to give Putin flexibility once accountability to voters was no longer an issue, as Obama did. Of course, Obama also essentially did nothing as...(Read Full Post)