Panetta: Trump’s ‘Greatest Fear’ Is the Questioning of His Legitimacy as President

RUSH EXCERPT:

PANETTA: “Well, it’s President Trump’s greatest fear, and that’s why he continues to say there’s no collusion. That’s why he continues to say that the Mueller investigation was a witch hunt. That’s why he continues to try to in some way say that his election was not interfered with by the Russians and that he won fairly and squarely. I think his worst fear is that what Jimmy Carter just said which is that somehow the legitimacy of that election is not there because of what the Russians did. Now, we don’t know that for a we haven’t been able to prove that in fact what the Russians did could have changed that election, but the mere fact that this president doesn’t take a strong stand against Russia to make very clear that they attacked the United States of America and our election system and we are not going to allow them to do that again. The mere fact that he doesn’t stand up and say that strongly I think conveys his own inner weakness that somehow what Russia did, in fact, did sway the election.”