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What Trump Is Doing Is Not O.K.

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President Trump disembarking from Air Force One as he returns from Florida on Feb. 12. Al Drago / The New York Times February 14, 2017 Thomas L. Friedman Thank God for the resignation in shame by Mike Flynn, President Trump’s national security adviser. And not just because he misled the vice president and engaged in deeply malignant behavior with Russia, but, more important, because maybe it will finally get the United States government, Congress and the news media to demand a proper answer to what is still the biggest national security question staring us in the face today: What is going on between Donald Trump and the Russians? Sorry, Kellyanne Conway, I am not ready to just “move on.” Every action, tweet and declaration by Trump throughout this campaign, his transition and his early presidency screams that he is compromised when it comes to the Russians. I don’t know whether Russian oligarchs own him financially or whether Russian spies own him pers...