Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) (Julio Cortez/AP)For months, Democrats have alluded to but largely danced around the question of whether President Trump might be compromised by Russia. On Thursday, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) decided it was time to stop dancing so much. “I’m talking about the entirely legitimate question of whether Donald Trump could be compromised by the Russian government,” he says in prepared remarks for a floor speech he just began. After Trump’s meeting with Putin in Helsinki last summer, leaders suggested it was a newly legitimate question to ask whether Trump might be compromised. After it was reported that the FBI launched a counterintelligence investigation that sought to answer whether Trump was compromised by Russia, they became a bit bolder.

Source: Washington Post February 14, 2019 21:38 UTC