I never thought I’d live to see the day when the President of the United State would attempt to intimidate and silence the media, lash out at our official intelligence agencies and surround himself with sycophants and people with questionable Russian connections.
A few weeks ago, National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was forced to resign because he lied about his contacts with the Russians while he was on the President’s transition team. As if this weren’t enough, we recently learned that Jeff Sessions, our new Attorney General, lied under oath, at a Senate hearing, about two visits he made to the Russian ambassador during the presidential campaign. He has since recused himself of any participation in investigations pertaining to Trump people’s Russian contacts during that period. Oh well! What’s a lie? We’ve heard so many bold-faced lies from the President himself; it’s gotten hard for me to keep up with them all.
True, President Trump sounded like a traditional president when he gave a scripted optimistic talk to Congress on Tuesday, Feb. 28. This automatically boosted his rating in the polls by several points and gave many of us hope that maybe he would behave himself from now on and would refrain from making outrageous statements, such as the one he made when he repeatedly called the media “the enemy of the people.”
Indeed, it would be nice to believe that President Trump has learned his lesson. But at this point, we cannot afford to be complacent. As Americans, we must insist on our right to know the truth. We owe it to ourselves to demand a fair and thorough investigation of the nature of the contacts between President Trump, his entourage and representatives of the Russian government.
Monique Begg
