The Truth About Trump

If you are wondering how Americans elected a person with no government experience, no law degree or even a knowledge of Constitutional law to hold the highest office in America and represent the free world, you need to read a good summer read book called Facts and Fears by James Clapper who is a former Intel chief in our government. It is an important read because he has seen it all in our government in the last 40 years. In this new book Clapper is upset with President Trump to say the least because Trump has been so very outrageous and unconventional in everything he does.

James Clapper has been a career non-partisan military background guy who has served under every President since Kennedy. I will reveal what he says right at the end of the book where he talks about the last big investigation that was all about the Russian attack on our last Presidential election. This book explains in great detail what exactly our government knew about the Russian attack. What President Obama was doing with the knowledge of possible shady dealings by the Russians?  Clapper left his career on the day Trump got elected.

The Intelligence community had told Obama that the Russians had attacked the election process and tried to help Trump win. In this book Clapper said that by May2017, when Jim Comey was fired we’d learned that the Russian operation had been more expansive than the Intelligence Community had assessed in January. We know now that the Russians had thousands of Twitter accounts and tens of thousands of bots that posted more than a million tweets. They posted more than a thousand videos on You Tube with days of streaming content. Facebook has said Russian content reached 126 million of its American users—an astonishing number, considering that only 139 million Americans voted.

Clapper writes that as the leader of the Intelligence Community. I testified that the IC did not attempt to assess whether the Russian influence campaign impacted the results of the election. As a private citizen now, I had no doubt they influenced at least some voters. Looking at the savvy ways the Russians targeted specific voter groups—for instance, buying advertisements on Facebook promoting Clinton’s support of the Black Lives Matter movement and ensuring those ads ran only on the pages of white conservative voters in swing states. Looking at how they created lies that helped Trump and hurt Clinton and promoted these falsehoods through social media and state-sponsored channels to the point that the traditional US media were unwittingly spreading Russian propaganda.

And at how they ran a multifaceted campaign and sustained it at a high level from early 2015 until Election Day in 2016. Of course the Russian effort affected the outcome. Surprising even themselves, they swung the election to a Trump win.  To conclude otherwise stretches logic, common sense, and credulity to the breaking point. Less than eighty thousand votes in three key states swung the election. I have no doubt that more votes than that were influenced by this massive effort by the Russians.

So, now here we are with a confident defiant Trump who has been destroying the fabric of this country with confidence that his best buddy the Russians will see him through to even the next election at the expense of the gullible common American voter.