Trump transaction helps Russian dictator

It’s October 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, cognizant of a Depression-weary population, decides to take action to punch up the economy just a few weeks before the national election. 

He signs a deal with Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler to sell steel and oil to Germany, which is at war with the European democracies.

Supporting the enemy of democracy. Unthinkable, right?

How different is that from President Donald J. Trump’s Friday deal to reduce sanctions on Russian diesel oil, allowing Russian war aggressor Vladimir Putin to sell oil and raise money for his damaged economy? Our most transactional President recognizes no boundaries.

Just last month Trump signed a law designed to choke off funds Russia gets from the sale of gas and oil it uses to fund its stalled war of aggression against Ukraine. That was the bill championed by Trump bestie Sen. Lindsey Graham. The bill was his legacy. That was then.

“I want to thank President Putin,” said our President. 

What did he thank him for?

His desperate hope is that the released oil may lower sky-high diesel prices in the U.S., and that may help Republican candidates who are facing tough races mainly due to affordability, which Trump insists, contrary to reality, is a fake issue.

How fake is it now?

Saturday noon update: In a presser with reporters, Trump blames Ukraine for the high diesel prices, repeats the war would not have started if he had been President, suggests, contrary to fact, that Ukraine was to blame, and that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy should be impeached.
The fact is that diesel prices have increased due to Ukrainian responsive attacks on aggressor Russia’s refineries, much like the U.S. bombing German oil facilities during World War II.

I criticized the Democrats’ efforts to impeach Trump last time. It seemed foolhardy. The next time? Maybe I will stand silent.

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