For the first time in 51 weeks, today seems a little better than yesterday.
Anybody who claims to know how all this will end is just guessing. We can’t know how Trump will try to fight back, how Congress will react or how the pro-Trump public will react.
Already, after the news broke about Manafort and Gates, the RWM (right wing media) machine began crowing that the charges had nothing to do with Trump. Then, within two hours, the media noticed that another document had been unsealed — former campaign aide George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty back on Oct. 5 to lying to the FBI. As Josh Marshall noted at Talking Points Memo, Papadopoulos’ job on the campaign was setting up meetings with high-ranking Russians. So yes, there is a big connection to Russia.
Other news that was blown off the front page includes a welcome development in Puerto Rico, where that absurd Whitefish Energy contract was cancelled. Remember, though, that this is the administration’s strategy on everything — make enough outrageous moves and some will slip through.
Actor Kevin Spacey is the latest Hollywood star called out as a sexual predator, and his “Oh by the way, I’m gay” response is not going over well.
Quote of the weekend came from Hillary Clinton: “It does strike me that in the last few days at least, Fox News seems to think that’s where I live, in the White House. Because they spend a disproportionate amount of their time talking about impeaching me.”