Originally Posted by thommy

but look what he EXACTLY did:

up to now he denied any influence of russia on the elections.

and he will NEVER say that they did it to get trump into oval office.

trump did the most things what putin expected but there are still a few things more to do to throw the country into a civil war.
a civil war will make russia to the strongest military nation in the world because USA
will be busy with own problems.

on the other hand trump is NOT doing all what putin wants.
so what he is doing now to get that is to mention that it MOIGHT BE that some "russian patriots" have done that.

trump know that putin can come up with these patriots at any time and it will

a. proove that the elections have been manipulated and
b. that putin himself has nothing to do with it.

what do you think will trump do to get out of that situation?

his 2 choices are:

a. confessing that there was a manipulation and get out of the white house
b. understand putin´s warning shot and keep him silent by doing what putin wants.

you can say whatever about putin but he is 10000000 times better strategist as trump and the complete political zoo around him.