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There is no evidence that members of the Trump presidential campaign broke the law when they were in contact with various Russian officials during the campaign and transition period.

Yet that has not stopped some liberals from fantasizing about impeachment proceedings, based on unsubstantiated claims that Trump coordinated with Russian hackers to embarrass Hillary Clinton.

Voters knew months before the election that Trump advisers, including Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, had close ties to Russia. This was one of many reasons to oppose Trump's candidacy. But he won anyway. Nothing that was reported last week, all attributed to anonymous sources within the intelligence community, invalidates that result.

President Donald Trump is furious over the constant leaks from the national security apparatus that undermined former National Security Adviser Flynn.

The leaks are definitely a problem. The D.C. bureaucracy is picking out classified information to feed to the press in order to wage a guerrilla campaign against Trump. That is unacceptable.

But such bureaucratic abuse does not excuse the Trump administration's continued blindness to the threat of Vladimir Putin's regime.

Barack Obama promised to show more flexibility to Russia after he was re-elected. But the Trump administration has tied itself in knots excusing Putin's misdeeds.

Like all bullies, Putin responded to this weakness with more aggression. Russia is cruising a spy ship up and down the Eastern seaboard, and Russian planes are buzzing U.S. Navy ships in the Black Sea.

Trump's admiration and excuses for an authoritarian thug like Putin are deeply troubling. Critics should concentrate on Trump's weak foreign policy, rather than on conspiracy theories about the 2016 election.

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Russian blindness: Trump team ties troubling - The Union Leader

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