Josh Marshall addresses the only important question in American politics:
The greatest conceit in public life today is the notion that we don’t already know President Trump is guilty. … Why there’s such resistance to this reality is an interesting question. My own best guess is that it is too disquieting a reality to grapple with. Someone who has deliberately betrayed his country and who is compromised by and under the thumb of a foreign despot clearly should not be President. But his supporters don’t accept that. And as long as they don’t there’s no path to removing him from power prior to 2020 and maybe even beyond.
There’s no drug stronger than denial.
Remember Trump Steaks? Trump Mortgage? Trump Magazine? Now you can add the Trump Military Parade to the long list of Trump’s Stupid Ideas/Abject Failures. After seeing the $92 million price tag, Trump pulled the plug, though officially it’s only “postponed.” My favorite part of his semi-literate tweet about it was his assertion that “Now we can buy some more jet fighters!” The actual price of a single F-35 is $94.6 million.
One of Trump’s Russian buddies got blunt with him yesterday, tweeting, “If Donald Trump does not extinguish the fire kindling FAKE NEWS Russophobia – it will be his last term,” meaning Republicans will have to hack into voting systems on their own.
Will Trump listen? The Philadelphia Eagles’ Malcolm Jenkins thinks not. He wore a shirt that said “You’re Not Listening” onto the field and stood in the tunnel for the national anthem. These protests, and the schadenfreude over the owners’ dilemma, has given me a reason to pay attention to the NFL again.
Just a reminder: 565 migrant children remain in federal custody, proving that we can make something here in America: Orphans!