“Putin’s Puppet”

July 17, 2018

“It looks bad, very bad for the President.”  “Putin’s Puppet.”  This is what is being said all over the globe.  It is a sad day to see our U.S. President being so easily manipulated by the Kremlin.  Today, Trump back tracks, trying to say he did not throw the U.S. Intelligence Agencies, the CIA and the FBI under the bus, when he agreed with Putin that the Russian’s did not hack the U.S. election process in 2016, nor did they seek to sway the election toward the election of Trump, the man who is so easy for Putin to manipulate.  Trump agreed with Putin that the Russians did not hack to release the emails of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Party to embarrass them.  Trump did not acknowledge the findings of Special Counselor Mueller, who has indicted some 15 Russian agents as the “hackers,” who did this dirty deed.  Nor did Trump acknowledge any knowledge of the Russian agent arrested for setting up a back channel through the NRA to give monetary contributions to influence senior politicians, including Mitch McConnell, Republican Senate leader from Kentucky.

President Trump bowed to this dictator of the Russian Federation and the Russian people, this master manipulator, who lies convincingly with a smile, even in the face of incontrovertible evidence.  Putin denies any role in the poisoning of Russian nationals in London, even though the nerve agent is Russian by chemical analysis.  Trump chooses to believe his own fake news in order to keep Trump at the center of the world stage, but never acknowledging his bowing to Putin, calling him a strong leader, when his proper role as U.S. President is to rebuke Putin and tell him that any violation of our election sovereignty will lead to a world condemnation of Russia with the U.S. President leading in this charge.

Putin should be told there is a great difference between democratic governments and what he has in Russia as the new czar.  Putin should be told his own election is not valid as to democratic process, since it allowed no genuine opposition candidate to emerge, having put the only true  opposition candidate in jail.  Trump should have met instead with the Russian opposition leader and said the U.S. supports him in a new election to unseat Putin.  Instead we have a smiling Putin and a very weak President shaking hands while the power of the handshake clearly shows it is Putin, not Trump who is in charge of this charade.

John McCain calls Trump’s performance, “shameful.”  Lindsey Graham, says this is a “missed opportunity.”  Intelligence officials call this “treasonous.”   Paul Ryan says “there is no comparison to be made between our democracy and Putin’s Russia.”  I myself wonder how such a mediocre performance by our President was allowed.  Where are Trump’s advisors?  Who allowed him to sit for two hours alone with Putin with no help to mediate the facts?  Is anyone in charge of this man’s foibles?  How far must we fall attached to this man’s coat tails?  How long will be asked to put up with this mediocre President, an amateur on the world stage, so easily mocked and manipulated by his own tweets!???  “Replace Trump, O God, replace him, lest we die a death by mockery and chagrin!  Who is this man, O God, and where did you find such an idiot to lead our nation?  Take him back, dear Lord Jesus!  Take him back to his hotels and his golf courses, lest he destroy everything dear in our democracy, lest he take away the rights of free men and women, lest he dishonor our hero dead, who fought and died bravely to grant us such freedoms of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!

O God, our Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and Blessed Holy Spirit of truth and righteousness:  Lead us away from this miry pit, set our feet again upon the solid rock of Christ.  Bring us into a new appreciation of our democracy.  Help us to realize what we are about to lose.  Stop this madness before it consumes us, our whole nation and our democratic way of life.  Save us, Lord Jesus, before it is too late!  Let someone arise among us who can lead us into a better way of living, so that we may glorify your name and give you our praise and blessing!

Let the truth of all things prevail. Reveal the deepest secrets of men and women’s hearts and our lives that we may judge rightly, that the truth of good government prevail among all people.  Let us not give away our righteous souls for the lure of unrighteous mammon.  Let us instead stand for Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Goodness and True Understanding!  Grant us wisdom from above to discern what is the right and the true in this situation, so that we may judge effectively light from darkness, truth from error and unrighteousness from the righteous way of living.  Help us, O God, to follow you, so we may live and serve you effectively in your kingdom.  We pray in the name of the only living God, Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen and Amen.”

Let all of God’s people say, “Amen!”

“Amen!  We praise you, Lord Jesus Christ!”

Bill Wilson, M.D., D.Min.  AAFP-Fellow