In their defence of Trump, are Republicans aware that they are also defending Putin?

When  Trump "repeatedly pursued business deals in Russia since 1987, and sometimes travelled there to explore potential business opportunities", and "..in 2008 his son Donald Trump Jr. said that Russia was an important source of money for the Trump businesses", (Wikipedia) little did Putin then know that his FSB surveillance of  Trump had collected salacious details on a big fish ... the future President of the US, Donald Trump.

These salacious details gathered by Putin, as revealed in the dossier of  David Steele, have always haunted Trump. So much so, that one can now understand Trump's fear of 'getting on the wrong side' of Putin since Putin can, by simply revealing these salacious details, put an ignominious and abrupt end to Trump's presidency.

And so it is that these 'salacious' details are now beginning to be publicly mentioned, by none other than Trump himself in a revealed one-on-one conversation with former FBI director, James Comey, as the Senate Intelligence Committee continues its investigation into Putin's collusion with Trump and his cohorts during the 2016 US presidential elections.

Today James Comey will be appearing before the US Senate Intelligence Committee, and the already publicly released details of Comey's conversations with Donald Trump will come under severe scrutiny.

Today, the psychological pressure that Putin is exerting on Trump to have the US sanctions against himself, his 'siloviki', and his private 'slush fund Russian bank', Vnesheconombank, removed, will be revealed.

What will also be revealed, as Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson explains, is the fact the the Trump administration, just like Putin and his Kremlin clan, is being run like a Mafia Organization, an organization that demands loyalty.

Trump however, in not above the Rule of Law in the US, nor the US Constitution, something that he simply fails to understand.

How he must wish that he had the same power as Putin, where the so-called Russian Rule of Law simply does not exist, and where Putin IS the law.

The fact that Trump wanted former FBI director, James Comey, to drop his investigation into the many conversations between Russian US ambassador, Sergei Kislyak, and  Mike Flynn, (left: Flynn and Kislyak) both during and after the 2016 US presidential election, signifies that Trump, himself, must have know that the central theme of those conversations between Flynn and Kislyak was the dropping of  the US sanctions that was instituted because of Putin's illegal annexation of Ukrainian Crimea, and his ongoing war with Ukraine in the Donbas.

This was the 'payback' expected by Putin of Trump for getting Trump into the White House.

The scarlet thread of Maidan, that has wrapped Putin in sanctions, and that has wrapped Trump in the nightmare of his salacious cavortings in Russia being publicly revealed, as by his own 'denial' of those cavorting to James Comey, cannot be easily escaped from by either Putin nor Trump.

James Comey's testimony before the US Senate Intelligence Committee today will bring out the most tortuous legal defence of Trump by his Republican defenders in both the US Congress and Senate.

The $64 question is,

"How far will Republican Senators and Congress men and women go to defend Trump in the face of ongoing revelations about his attempt to obstruct Justice?"

In their defence of Trump, are Republicans aware that they are also defending Putin?

(to be continued)