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It's not about respecting the rules, it's about being on the right team. Politics has shifted from being about policies to being about tribes.
It is only shocking if you slept through the past decade >

It’s only shocking if you ignore the first time he said it when he was president. He said basically the exact same thing. >

It was a speech in Helsinki. The US president publicly declared that he took the word of the leader of a hostile nation over our own intelligence agencies and Republicans acted like it was no big deal.
Trump was always Putin's lapdog. >

Which Hilary called him in their debate. >

"No puppet! You're the puppet!"

A former POTUS. Excuse me while I take up drinking again >

Once he admitted to tax evasion("That makes me smart") and people in the crowd applauded, I knew we were doomed. >

They’re still applauding him. Saying they’d do the same if they had the chance. 
Oddly when it came to Pelosi “taking advantage of legal loopholes” they didn’t feel the same way.