I think you literally copied and pasted a Trump Tweet. Every excuse you come up with is incredibly weak and paper thin.
Your dude is dirty, man. And he's compromised at the behest of Russian interest - which is my worry more than being prosecuted for criminality. The idea that Russia has compromising material again the President. That is simply frightening. I'd feel much more comfortable if his entire group stepped down and let a professional like Pence take over.
I hate to break it to you, but the democrats aren't the ones lying here. The only propaganda is coming out of Russia and the White House right now.
"Only ones" and I'll accept that. Although I am Republican, Trump seems incapable of actually running the Executive Branch to the point that we still don't have appointees yet in many of the major offices. I thought that Obama ran the place like Chicago, but Trump's people do not care about large sections of the government working properly if at all. Sorry, you can't spin off nonperforming divisions in government; they just come back to haunt us all.
About Russia, I'm pretty sure that they have damning evidence on basically anyone up to Bush Sr. (who Bush Sr. made it a point to not have those sorts of problems). We do as well on Putin. The question is whether or not the Russians can use what they know as leverage, and I don't think so. Trump is widely thought of as a boorish, sexist scumbag by his allies notwithstanding his enemies. Trump is not quite Bill Clinton in terms of being judgment proof, but whatever the Russians have, I can't see them operationalizing what they know effectively. I'd be more worried if it was someone like Reagan where he certainly exhibited signs of Parkinson's toward the end of his Presidency which made him quite unpredictable to deal with. In another world where McCain would have been President, his recent cranial surgery would have scared everyone as it causes a random, unpredictable pattern of behavior when holding the football. And even if Putin cavorts with 15-year-old models and is quite possibly the richest man in the world, what the hell is that to us? Sure, even if we can prove the matter, it isn't going to anything useful. And about working with the Russians on a takeover deal, sorry to break a bubble, we've been doing that since the Red Telephone was installed after the Cuban Missile Crisis. A question, and a valid one, is whether the deals we are making with the Russians are selfish to a President or historically important to our beneficence. Who knows, but the public should be skeptical of Trump, because Trump just can't help himself from being himself. However, if you saw what the Russians thought about Reagan, we really could have doomed ourselves during Able Archer because Reagan took a hardcore stance to not communicate with the Russians at the start of his tenure.
I'm quite a bit more concerned that we have Congressional gridlock yet again. Without a functional Legislative Branch, the tension is going to build up until there is one sort of tyranny of the majority from either the Right or Left. That doesn't bode well for federal governance, and it never has historically. The real propaganda campaign is to hide that corporations are screwing you all over in that there are no public investments that actually work without insider knowledge, that the air you breathe, the food you eat, and the water you drink continue to be polluted, that none of our jobs are career safe anymore due to labor law and technology, and that the rich think they can buy their way out of dealing with public problems. Who cares about Trump or Congress if nothing substantial is getting done about the issues that matter?
And, oh, it's OUR President, even if we did not vote for him (I certainly voted my conscience for someone else). That's the problem, elections do have consequences, and we do acknowledge the legitimate outcomes even when they are not in our favor. At some level, we do have to work with Trump for the next 3 and a half years. And from the way Civil Service is running, it'll be a long and memorable term at this rate.
Although, I have to say the least photogenic president in history is certainly not Trump:
Anti-nixon Poster, 1960 by Granger
