Or, there's another possibility, which is even more sinister -- Trump didn't ask about it, because he already knew. Because he was in on it, and he doesn't want to do anything to stop it.
But, I'm going with the Trump-doesn't-care-about-anything-but-himself scenario, because there's a whole lot of evidence of that.
All morning I've been watching Republicans online defending Oliver Stone for saying nice things about Vladimir Putin. That's very surreal to me. I knew the GOP had gone a little crazy since they started mainlining propaganda like it was heroin, but I never thought it'd go so far that they'd start sniffing the jock of America's enemies. There's a well-established authoritarian, masochistic, fawning streak in conservatism that gets off on having some big boy's boot on their neck. They love being told what to do, from cops to church, but, damn, I thought the line they'd draw against it was a lot further back than it's turning out to be. They're having pimp-games played on them by foreign powers, and they're so stupid-happy at a chance to "piss off the libtards" that they're willing to fall right into Putin's trap. It really is a case of "ha ha, the Democrats hate Putin, so we'll show them by hugging him around his knees and calling him daddy!" now.
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