Opinion: Trump Crossed A Line l Meir Bergman

President Trump has lived his entire adult life by one simple creed: win at all cost. When he is faced with an obstacle, rather than go around it, he prefers to barrel straight through it, smashing the hindrance to smithereens in the process. He is willing to make daring moves and risky decisions in order to get ahead. His brashness, confidence, and unapologetic bravado has made him many an enemy. But it is his philosophy of fighting that has made him a billionaire, a famed TV personality, and of course, President of the United States of America.

His unabashed willingness to tangle horns with anyone, anywhere, and at any time has made him a feared and respected businessman and has completely flummoxed his foes in politics and the media. When they expect him to react in a certain way to jabs they send his away, he instead responds in manners that they don’t see coming, lifting his popularity and making his enemies back away simultaneously. There is a certain art and genius to the whole Trump show, but it’s benefits has it’s limits and boundaries – and one such boundary was crossed on Wednesday.

In an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC, President Trump said that his own FBI Director, Chris Wray, was wrong when he said that a campaign that receives opposition dirt on a political opponent should immediately call the FBI. Additionally, he said that he would gladly listen if a foreign country attempted to provide opposition research to his campaign in an attempt to interfere with a future election, such as the one to be held in 2020.

This goes directly towards Trump’s creed – win at all cost. But this is where it crosses the line. You cannot give a foreign nation attempting to interfere in American elections an invitation to do as they wish. There is a reason that a law exists saying that it is unlawful for a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make a contribution of value, monetary or otherwise, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election.

It is bad enough that the majority of Washington politicians are bought off by major companies and are essentially elected lobbyists, rather than true representatives of their constituents. It becomes far worse when foreign nations can do the very same to our elected officials.

Winning at all costs is a nice strategy, but it comes with serious drawbacks. The integrity of our elections and lawmakers should not be one of them. President Trump should say clearly and without ambiguity that he is against any information being provided by foreign nations and will repudiate any attempt from a foreigner to hurt his political opponents.

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6 COMMENTS

  1. Hahaha! 1st of all, to assess if the information should be passed along to the FBI it has to be listened to. 2. This is called diplomacy. Nation States share inside information ALL the TIME! 3. He didn’t say he would USE the information, he said he would definitely listen. Just like ANY opponent. And BTW, this is completely different from making up a bunch of lies and passing them around as truth, like the dossier. 4. It’s NOT ILLEGAL!!

  2. All politicians do it, and some even write and pay for it (Hillary). President Trump is the only one to admit he would look at what was being offered. And he also said depending on what the information was he would call the FBI.

  3. Dear Meir Bergman- I’m sure you’re a very nice fellow, but you’re certainly VERY naive! Do you have ANY idea what’s going on? Hillary Clinton AND the Democrat Party PAID millions of dollars to a British spy to go to the Russians to CREATE a dossier of salacious,disgusting lies about Trump and then leaked this to the mainstream media who reported these filthy lies as facts! This entire charade was weaponized and validated as pure truth by none other than the ENTIRE American security apparatus such as CIA,FBI,etc etc. The main stream media kept parroting that there were 19 security organizations that verified the validity of this dossier! They then proceeded to a FISA court with this hogwash to receive permission to spy on the TRUMP campaign! This fisa warrant was renewed FOUR times to continue the permission to spy on Trump and his campaign! There are currently 3 separate ongoing investigations into all of this. I’m sure we haven’t even touched the tip of the iceberg regarding how elaborate this scheme went against this president! Your foolish comments are ridiculous when put in to context of what’s going on here. The questioner is part of the deep state swamp and all the president said was he’d listen if someone offered dirt! He never he’d pay millions to have a foreign state CREATE an entire narrative to DESTROY an opponent as was done to him! By the way,this president has rebuilt a robust economy of historic proportions,totally annihilated an 85,000 man fighting isis force with a caliphate the size of an average European country that was threatening the entire world on a daily basis. Is confronting ALL evil players in the world such as China,Russia,Iran,Turkey,PLO,N Korea, United Nations etc etc. By the way , he’s greatest friend Jewish people and Israel has EVER had by so far that it’s a joke! I can go on for quite a while but I think you really have to rethink the way you see things! You’re being influenced by media,academia,entertainment industry,left wing libs who ALL despise the creator of us all and are threatened by this incredibly courageous lion who fights all their evil in ways they’ve never seen before!

  4. What ignorance, just remember that Hillary and the DNC hired a foreigner (steele) to dig up dirt from a foreign country (russia) the only Russian collusion in 2016 was between Hillary the DNC and Russia. Listening to dirt on people is not illegal if it would be then it would be illegal for anyone to listen to any foreigner making fun of candidates.

    Spartacus has now become anti school vouchers and anti charter schools but that was to be expected from a a power hungry backstaaber.

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