White House Asks Reports on Trump-Russia Ties to Be Knocked Down, FBI Says No

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Ten years ago, had someone asked me whether Donald Trump or Barack Obama would have had more trouble with a combination of law enforcement, the intelligence services, and the military I would have expected more trouble in an Obama administration. Obama was, after all, more to the Left. I would have expected the trouble to have been ideological.

I would have been very wrong. So would many others. President Obama didn't have many problems. He is cautious -- cautious enough that even one of his harshest critics, Karl Rove, when asked whether he could attribute any virtue could attribute any virtue to him, it was caution. 

If you want someone in command of a high-risk, high-reward mission you might want to pick the leader who has the least relish for risk -- someone who doesn't telegraph his feelings, someone who doesn't get complacent until the deed is done, someone with no magical belief that he is a 'winner', someone who leaves room for a few things to go wrong, and who has the patience to wait for the optimal time. You want someone willing to inculcate a delusion in the other side that he is getting away with a blunder and that he has a good escape.

Donald Trump is the opposite.