Well,.....er....I care nothing about politics:P.................& I don't want to blame you ,Eric .
No one can blame you,because you think you are in full possession of the facts.
But what you've heard/seen is not necessarily a fact.It's just " a plethora of surmise,
conjecture, and hypothesis. The difficulty is to
detach the framework of fact—of absolute undeniable
fact—from the embellishments of theorists
and reporters. Then, having established ourselves
upon this sound basis, it is our duty to see what
inferences may be drawn and what are the special
points upon which the whole story turns...".