American democracy is in danger

By Armando García

The world received as a bucket of cold water, the words of President Donald J Trump to say that Russia, under its president Vladimir Putin, did not intervene in the US elections of 2016, which made Trump win the race to conquer the White House.

Experts say that the Trump-Putin Summit in Finland, the winner of the meeting was the Russian leader. Trump ignored that Russia is the historical enemy of the United States. Trump in Finland ignored the US intelligence reports accusing a little more than a dozen Russian citizens of having intervened in the 2016 presidential elections. For that reason, Trump is labeled as a traitor, for leaning to the side of Russia.

Analysts state that Trump thinks that world decisions should be made by the three leaders of the super powers on the planet: The United States, Russia and China. And that's the reason Trump says that if he gets along with Russia, the United States, he will do better.

Some legislators, both Republicans and Democrats, have declared their repudiation to the president and have hinted that Putin must have a secret or know or got something about Trump, which, if revealed, would harm the US president.

The White House is doing what it can to clean up the immediate and subsequent consequences of the damage caused by the president's words about Putin's refusal to intervene in US elections.

Trump, back from Finland, had to publicly retract what he said in Helsinki. The president declared that the media misunderstood his words. He corrected his statement that he would saw no reason to think that Moscow was responsible and that instead he should have said that he " wouldn’t saw a reason not to think about it".

He accepted the intelligence reports on Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election, but that there was no collusion. But he said that had not impacted the outcome of the election where Hillary Clinton lost. But he did not declare anything against Putin. The president said that the United States in this year's elections will take greater care so that there is no foreign intervention.

Former President Barack Obama, in a speech in honor of the late South African leader Nelson Mandela, in Johannesburg, South Africa, said that we must take into account "... the strange and uncertain times in which we find ourselves - and are strange and insecure - the cycle Every day's news brings more disturbing headlines and headlines - I thought it might be useful to take a step back for a moment and try to have some perspective, "said the former president. His remarks also come a day after president Trump blamed the United States that Russia is considered adversary but that from now on it will be a competing nation.