It's about Donald Trump

Donald Trump's reaction to his briefing by the intelligence committee yesterday was both remarkable and predictable. He was and is obsessed with the notion that it was entirely his brilliance that caused him to win the election and no other forces were involved. To that end, he cannot accept but he was told because it suggests that the Russians intentionally attempted to affect the election in his favor, whether they actually did so or not. This is unbearable to trump because it suggests that maybe the election was affected by the Russians and maybe they wanted him to win.

This is still the same Putin that invaded Georgia during the Bush administration, attacked and annexed the Crimea, invaded the Ukraine, bombed the anti-Asad forces in Syria and is now rattling his swords in the Balkans. He does not wish to the US well. Given that, why would he wish Trump to win the election? If we choose the most obvious answer, it is because he believes Trump to be susceptible to manipulation. In fact, egomaniacs tend to be the easiest to manipulate. Trump is revealing himself to be a breathtaking combination of ignorance, arrogance and incompetence.

We now await kellyanne or one of his other apologists to appear in the next day or so attempting to deflect from what we have just seeing. They will wish to discuss only some version of blaming whatever Russia did on the Obama administration and perhaps its predecessors. They will not wish to discuss what Russia actually did and why. Further, they will state that Mr. Trump has strategies to deal with Russia, Syria, North Korea, Etc. That will be revealed at a later date.

It becomes more and more clear that Mr. Trump is a potential disaster. If he is unwilling to listen to the intelligence Community, given his ignorance he will be totally adrift. One of the great dangerous about this man is he will seek to prove that he is smarter and more clever then anyone else in government. We can expect bold stupid moves. In the area of foreign-policy, the president has a great deal of authority and discretion. In the wrong hands, that is more than troublesome.