President Trump has successively blamed Hillary Clinton, the intelligence community, and now President Barack Obama for his troubles with Russia.

His troubles essentially come from a growing public awareness about how much of a Russian pawn President Trump actually is. For example, in just the past couple of days, it has been revealed that Trump kept a known Russian pawn (General Michael Flynn) on his team, and it’s also been revealed that Trump presidential campaign operatives were in regular communication with Russians throughout the election season.

And yet Americans are supposed to trust this man to represent the country in issues of global security? Trump, the Russian pawn, is in so far over his head that he recently attacked the New START treaty, which is the paper that keeps the world from being blown to smithereens by either Russian or American nuclear weapons.

So, responding to the outrage over all of this on Twitter early Wednesday morning, Trump took, as mentioned, to blaming the intelligence community, Hillary Clinton — and even President Barack Obama.

He wrote, “Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia?”

Crimea was TAKEN by Russia during the Obama Administration. Was Obama too soft on Russia? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2017

Is Trump senile?

Okay, first of all, there is no place to suggest that an American president is somehow responsible for the actions of a Russian leader in, as Trump put it, “TAKING Crimea.” Russia is Russia and the United States is the United States. Trump’s tweet implicitly blaming Obama for Russia’s war against the Ukraine is on par with that time when Vladimir Putin himself blamed then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for protests that had sprung up against him.

There is essentially no basis for Trump to suggest what he’s suggested here. No, President Obama was not at all “too soft on Russia,” although admittedly, such is an incredibly subjective phrasing. It’s the Obama administration that put in place the very sanctions against the Russians that Trump has already busied himself dismantling. That’s a simple, quantifiable way to distinguish Obama’s tough stance on Russia from Trump’s softness for Putin.

Trump finds usefulness in tweeting out crap like this in order to distract from his own dangerous ineptitude.

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