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Check Out Dan Rather's Comments on FB Today Regarding Trump!

Folks, if you want a simple test about false equivalency in the coverage of this election, let's try this little experiment.

Imagine if it was Hillary Clinton who was praising Vladimir Putin. Imagine if her campaign advisors had close ties to Russia. Imagine if her business interests and investors were unknown, but there was strong suspicion that her potentially shaky corporate empire was bolstered by Russian money.

And imagine if she refused to release her tax returns. In what kind of media landscape do you think we would be living? How much would we be hearing about this on cable news? What would the likes of Sean Hannity be saying? Or even the headlines in the New York Times? I think these questions answer themselves.

As a reporter, you often try to survey the landscape like an explorer, looking for streams flowing into larger rivers, and a river flowing into a much bigger sea. That's when you can sense there is the potential bombshell of a story.

And there is no question in my mind that Donald Trump and his ties to Russia are such a story. This report (shared here) by a seasoned investigative journalist that there may be back channel dealings between a Trump campaign official and the Russian government are but the latest serious allegations in a very long and troubling string of news.

Russia must be considered a top national security concern by our next president. Just this past week you had U.S. intelligence suggesting that Russian warplanes bombed an aid convoy in Syria.

And you have the two top-ranking Democrats on the Congressional intelligence panels saying that, based on briefings they have received, they believe Russian intelligence officers are trying to tamper with this presidential election.

And they believe those orders are coming from the top of the Russian government. Of course this is on top of such things as Russian action in Ukraine and Trump publicly questioning our responsibilities to our NATO allies.

There was a time when the GOP leaders couldn't criticize President Obama enough for not standing strong in the face of Russian aggression. Just a couple years ago House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) went on Fox News and said this: “Putin is playing chess and I think we are playing marbles, and I don’t think it’s even close,...They’ve been running circles around us, and I think it’s the naïve position on the National Security Council and the president’s advisers that if we just keep giving things to Russia, they’ll wake up and say, ‘boy the United States isn't all that bad.’ That is completely missing the motivations of why Russia does what Russia does.”

Where are those voices now? Why aren't there more headlines about this? And finally, what do we really know about Donald Trump and his motivations in regards to Russia? I know this issue can get lost in all the inferno swirling around this election, but to paraphrase the congressman from earlier, this ain't a game of marbles. /b]
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U.S. intel officials probe ties between Trump adviser and Kremlin

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