[FRIAM] Trump, truth, and politics: Why do we still think Trump is acting with respect to the truth?

[Marcus Daniels]

“Even if the intelligence community had iron clad proof, that everyone could understand and believe beyond a reasonable doubt (which they don't), it would only heighten questions about the legitimacy of Trump's win. At this point, that wouldn't be a win for Trump, or the country.”

For some narrow, short-sighted, definition of “win for the country”.  Is it a lose if your kid goes to the principal’s office for abusing his classmates, or goes to jail for a night for drunken bad behavior?   In the long term it is a win if we learn there are consequences to things and stop doing those things.   The supposed Russian hacking thing is a sideshow to the real problem of Trump’s conflict of interests in so many countries, esp. his outstanding debts to foreign banks.  Who really has their finger on him and how does his intend to use his new power in relation to that?  No one wants to dig into the hacking thing very deep because at the end of the day it proves nothing.  States do nasty things.  Yes, we get that.  Our networks and infrastructure are not particularly secure and like our shipping ports there are productivity consequences to being more cautious.

Marcus
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