Too stupid to be guilty?

Senior GOP Senator Says Trump Is Too Stupid To Collude With Russians

By Wendy Gittleson

Amid allegations of Russian interference with our elections, Republicans are scrambling, trying to defend the leader of their party. The latest defense, which comes from Lindsey Graham and sort of from Paul Ryan, is that Trump is too stupid to collude with the Russians.

After former FBI Director James Comey testified in front of Congress, that yes, Trump did ask him to drop the investigation into former national security advisor Michael Flynn.

The best defense House Speaker Paul Ryan could come up with was that Trump is new at this. He simply didn’t know it wasn’t cool to pressure the head of the FBI.

“The President’s new at this. He’s new to government. So, he probably wasn’t steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between DOJ, FBI and White Houses. He’s just new to this.”Pushed further by CNN, Ryan said, “I’m not saying it’s an acceptable excuse. It’s just my observation.”“He’s new at government, and so therefore I think that he — he is learning as he goes,” Ryan said.Source: CNN

Teenagers, try that argument next time you get pulled over while driving. On second thought, don’t.

Now, Sen. Lindsey Graham has taken that argument a step further and said that Trump is too incompetent to have colluded with the Russians.

“He doesn’t believe he did anything wrong with the Russians and I tend to believe him,” Graham said on CBS’ Face the Nation.

“He can’t collude with his own government. Why do you think he is colluding with the Russians?”Source: Think Progress

What Graham is ignoring is that the fact that Trump is incompetent is likely what made him the most desirable for Russians. Russian journalist Mikhail Fishman says this about Russian president Vladimir Putin’s opinion on Trump:

They’re quite obviously playing Trump. They consider him a stupid, unstrategic politician. Putin is confident that he can manipulate Trump to his advantage, and he should be.In other words, Trump’s a useful idiot to them?Exactly. The Kremlin is limited in their knowledge about what’s going on in Washington, but they see the chaos and the confusion in Trump’s administration. They see the clumsiness, the inexperience. Naturally, they’re working to exploit that.

Of course, Graham and Ryan know this and that’s what’s most dangerous of all.

While Trump might be too stupid to know that he is a stooge, the Republican Party’s cavalier attitude about the fact that Russia might have installed our incompetent Commander-in-Chief is perhaps the most treasonous part of all of this.

Author Wendy Gittleson is a political pundit, small business marketing guru, business blogger -- a true renaissance woman, which apparently makes her really old. By the way, did you know that every time someone mentions impeaching Trump (or shares one of Wendy's articles), an angel gets its wings? Follow Wendy on Twitter or Google Plus.