David Frum: The United States faces a national-security emergency

David Frum, the conservative Republican senior editor at The Atlantic, says it has become clear that Trump has been bribed or blackmailed into becoming a Russian puppet, and that the "United States faces a national-security emergency."

From The Atlantic:

The reasons for Trump's striking behavior-whether he was bribed or blackmailed or something else-remain to be ascertained. That he has publicly refused to defend his country's independent electoral process-and did so jointly with the foreign dictator who perverted that process-is video-recorded fact.

And it's a fact that has to be seen in the larger context of his actions in office: denouncing the European Union as a "foe," threatening to break up nato, wrecking the U.S.-led world trading system, intervening in both U.K. and German politics in support of extremist and pro-Russian forces, and continually refusing to act to protect the integrity of U.S. voting systems-it all adds up to a political indictment, whether or not it quite qualifies as a criminal one.

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