"Suppose...the dark crevices of the Russia scandal run not just a
little deeper but a lot deeper. If that’s true, we are in the midst of a
scandal unprecedented in American history, a subversion of the
integrity of the presidency. It would mean the Cold War that Americans
had long considered won has dissolved into the bizarre spectacle of
Reagan’s party’s abetting the hijacking of American government by a
former KGB agent.
"It would mean that when Special Counsel Robert Mueller
closes in on the president and his inner circle, possibly beginning
this summer, Trump may not merely rail on Twitter but provoke a
constitutional crisis.
"And
it would mean the Russia scandal began far earlier than conventionally
understood and ended later — indeed, is still happening. As Trump
arranges to meet face-to-face and privately with Vladimir Putin later
this month, the collusion between the two men metastasizing from a dark
accusation into an open alliance, it would be dangerous not to consider
the possibility that the summit is less a negotiation between two heads
of state than a meeting between a Russian-intelligence asset and his
handler."
—Jonathan Chait, New York magazine
This article by Chait is a service to the country and an important read for every American. Set aside some time to do it, because we cats have a terrible feeling that, like the Steele dossier, nothing in this story is going to be disproven.
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