As Collusion Evidence Emerges, Obstruction Allegations Begin To Look More Damaging
https://www.justsecurity.org/42992/c...ions-damaging/
As Collusion Evidence Emerges, Obstruction Allegations Begin To Look More Damaging
https://www.justsecurity.org/42992/c...ions-damaging/
It's pretty astounding to think of the millions of people watching Fox News and nodding- "Yeah, it IS okay to work with our greatest geopolitical enemy to throw our election in the direction they want in exchange for lifting sanctions we imposed for their election meddling and illegal annexation of another country. And if you lie about what you did and try to convince the country that said enemy didn't interfere in our elections at all- paving the way for them to do it again, so what? At least we're not one of those unpatriotic liberals!"
That's...literally what's happening right now. And these people are patting themselves on the backs and calling themselves great, patriotic Americans.
There is some complicated stuff going on here. At the end of last week, the Trump team waived privilege about a tape recording of a conversation between Cohen and Trump about paying off a Playboy model. Then somebody leaked the actual tape, which the Trump team condemned. And then at the end of this week somebody leaked that Cohen was present when Trump was informed in advance of Trump Jr.'s Russia meeting. Cohen's lawyer denies that the leak came from Cohen's side and suggests that Trump's team may have leaked it preemptively. This morning Trump surprised everybody by tweeting that he had no knowledge of the meeting. Is this chess or checkers? Or is there some third, smarter person orchestrating these leaks for purposes that the rest of us are too dumb to understand?