Another Day, Another Russian Contact

J. Garcia
J. Garcia
Aug 24, 2017 · 3 min read

In June 2016, the Russian government set up a meeting with the Trump campaign. Another high-level operative within the Trump campaign was also trying to set up a meeting according to a new report by CNN.

The aide, Rick Dearborn, who is now President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff, sent a brief email to campaign officials last year relaying information about an individual who was seeking to connect top Trump officials with Putin.

It seems that even though contacts between the Russian government and the Trump campaign were vehemently denied, this was not the fact. Months before this June contact, there was another group of emails from George Papadopoulos as The Washington Post reported:

Three days after Donald Trump named his campaign foreign policy team in March 2016, the youngest of the new advisers sent an email to seven campaign officials with the subject line: “Meeting with Russian Leadership — Including Putin.

The question that arises from this fresh fodder in email form is if the Trump campaign lied about actually having contact with the Russian government, then are they also lying about the extent of this contact. The logical conclusion is yes, of course.

There is a fable we tell children about lying. We all know it: ‘the boy who cried wolf.’ The moral of the story lies (pun intended) in the nature of honesty and dishonesty. When someone lies the erosion of trust is inevitable. The Trump hurricane has devastated the shores of honesty and trust. There is little trust within the entirety of the political spectrum left. When the next, inevitable, storm comes there will be no one left to believe. Trump’s own lies with snare him.

There is also another story that comes to mind when it comes to Trump’s presidency. This one is a lot more cryptic seeing as it is taken from the most cryptic section of an already pretty cryptic book.

The beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire. (Revelation 17:16)

The point here is not to equate Trump to a harlot (although, I’m sure… never mind), the point here is to find intrinsic narrative arches to human nature and actions. I simply pulled from a book which many Trump supporters hearken to in times of guidance. A greater point, above scriptural interpretation, lies in the notion of one group turning on another when their needs no longer sync.

For once, Trump instead of building bridges between the party that holds his future in their hands has repeatedly badgered prominent figure in the GOP. He attacked the Jeff Sessions; the person heading the Justice Department. Jeff Session, by the way, is also in very good standing with the GOP. When Trump attacked Sessions most Senators took Sessions’ side. He has attacked the current head of the Senate, Mitch McConnell. He has attacked at least three other Senate GOP members (Flakes, Heller, and McCain). He also has alienated several GOP governors with his repeal and replace non-policies and tweets.

With the constant pitter-patter of Russian contacts, meetings, calls, and conversations, when will the boy call out wolf one too many times before the beast actually turns on it?

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