If it walks like a Russian and hacks like a Russian…

I can’t get past this whole Russia business.

I mean, it’s not bad enough that every U.S. intelligence agency says the Russians interfered in our presidential election, but now it comes out that the Russians may have been dangling blackmail-ready info over Trump’s head for months while communicating with him and/or his team of advisers.

CNN, among others, reported yesterday that both President Obama and alt-President Trump have been briefed on this damaging new report, but like virtually everything else involving Russia, Trump refuses to acknowledge that any of it is true.

First he sent out his designated truth manipulator Kellyanne Conjob to claim that Trump “was not aware of” the latest briefing. What does that even mean? Did he get the briefing but sleep through it? Did he ignore it because he was too busy tweeting about Meryl Streep? Or was he unable to read it because was he blinded by the glare from all of those gold furnishings inside the Tower of Trump?

Later, he shot out a tweet claiming he was the victim of a political witch hunt (and he has the perfect witch to prove it), and then today during his fake news conference he said it was all fake news. To make matters worse, his confirmation of this fake-ness came from…wait for it…the Russians themselves.

“Vat? You tink dat vee interfereski in ‘lexshun? Nyet!”  

That may sound funny but it’s no joke. As loyal, patriotic, tax-paying American citizens we have a right to know why the alt-president of the United States – just 9 days from his inauguration – refuses to believe what his own intelligence agencies are telling him but absolutely believes what he hears from a known U.S. adversary that has no obligation or motivation to tell him the truth.

Seriously, he has been given a mountain of evidence that Russia is the perpetrator of this crime. Did he really expect them to come out today and admit what they’ve done to help get him elected? When did Vladimir Putin become the teller of truth?

And as for Trump himself, well, he hasn’t told the truth since the day he descended the golden escalator. I didn’t believe him then and I don’t believe him now. I don’t know how long his presidency will last, but frankly, two hours will be too long for me.

I’m not in the intelligence business, but I know one thing: If it looks like a Russian and hacks like a Russian, it’s probably a Russian. I’d suggest to Trump that he either get ahead of this with some “true truth” or get out while he can. This is likely to get worse before it gets better, and I don’t think it will end well for him.