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“It seems he is just always focused on Russia.”

“Kislyak must be one forgettable fellow.”

“So pathetic. Attacking the DNC and Hillary Clinton is the Trump administration’s go-to, tired, weak maneuver. It cannot hide the mountain of revelations that is threatening to crumble on top of them at any moment. #SAD!”

“The deeper question is whether members of Trump’s administration can uphold the trust that has been placed in them as stewards of the government they have been chosen to lead.”

“It is obvious to all except the willfully blind that we now have a president who observes none of the norms, rules or expectations of his office and will pressure anyone at any time if doing so serves his personal interests.”

“The problem with dwelling too much on the covert forms of collaboration, which we have come to call “collusion,” is that doing so risks letting Trump at least a little bit off the hook for what is not meaningfully disputed: that the president publicly, knowingly, and repeatedly (if only tacitly) collaborated with a foreign power’s intelligence effort to interfere in the presidential election of the country he now leads.”

“The president’s refusal to affirm the intelligence community’s findings pushes that analysis toward the realm of political subjectivity. These data might also reflect Americans’ distrust of institutional authority more broadly—a tendency that pollster Guy Molyneux characterizes as one of the “least appreciated” characteristics of the American electorate.”

But, three weeks into Stone’s tenure, reports emerge that President Trump has soured on the investigation, apparently fixated on the fact that several of the sea turtles “look like Dems.”

“Yet Trump, who denies everything, has managed to create a fictional narrative that not only justifies his dangling bluff but also gilds it as a moral victory: He tweeted about tapes to make sure “leaker” Comey would be honest when he testified.”

One of the reasons it’s so difficult to determine whether Donald Trump and members of his administration are “guilty” of colluding with a hostile foreign power is that it’s hard to distinguish between criminality and stupidity. 

I imagine it’s just a matter of time before Donald Trump tweets that he’s “the most persecuted man since Jesus.”