Yo Neo, you looking for a job as one of Trump's mouthpieces? They might well take you, they're pretty severely undermanned at the moment and could use a fresh face to get on TV and tell us how things aren't really the way the public thinks they are, for reasons we won't tell you. I'm not even kidding, they might even do it.
Anyway, there's a legitimate question I think about these Russia things, but at the same time, I have, to be honest: I don't know what there is behind all this Russia conspiracy. Perhaps there's nothng. There are missing pieces that don't really sit right with me, like what Russia got out of all this. On its own, I don't know if there would be nearly as much interest for the scandal itself except for the way he (Trump) has handled it. He acts suspicious. For all we know, isn't it possible that's just because he can't admit to faults? A politico article called Trump "A human smoke machine", and I think that is an entirely apt description. He breathes distraction, deflection, and confusion. He freaking revels in it. That's been clear since literally his first campaign speech on. That man is not only the master of misrepresenting the record, but I'd bet he does it impulsively too.
But where does this Russia investigation end? I don't know, and Trump seems determined to muck the waters. It's possible, in my mind, that he might be genuinely innocent of genuine collusion (although definitely guilty of being shady, alla "I want people to hack Clinton"). But he and his administration are so dedicated to compromising the process that if there isn't a real connection, it would be hard to even believe because it would be so tempting (and reasonable!) to believe that he is hiding the real results. Or put another way, the administration response to the accusation of smoke is to close the windows. The smoke never clears, regardless of whether there's fire. He'd be under perpetual low-level scandal.
Until he goes too far, of course. It's always possible he decides to go Nixon for ultimately trivial reasons. I'd believe it. He's not exactly very far from thinking "Well when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal", after all. He might so thoroughly muck up his handling of this it metastasizes into genuine Nixonian criminality. Not the strangest story we could get from 2017.
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