4021

4022

Oh! I get to use it again!

4023

You know what, say what you will but that totally stands up to fact checking.

4024
4025

Um…

4026

I’ve obtained an exclusive advance copy of the speech Trump is going to make to address the latest allegations.

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4027

I love it. What’s funny is that Jr. mentioned the trickle news method getting to them, and yet even as he did that interview on Hannity, his, “full transparency,” still wasn’t transparent. Every time this story keeps getting more involved and detailed, I cackle more with glee.

4028

Yeah, his interview with Hannity: “That’s it. There’s nothing else.”

Put that right up there with that Mission Accomplished banner.

4029

Heh.

The official Trump administration line used to be that no member of the campaign had any contact with Russia. Mike Pence: “Of course not. Why would there be any contact?” Kellyanne Conway: “Absolutely not. And I discussed that with the president-elect just last night. Those conversations never happened. I hear people saying it like it’s a fact on television. That is just not only inaccurate and false, but it’s dangerous.” Conway today has a new standard:

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/885831098705600514

The goalposts have definitely been moved here. After having heatedly denied any contact with Russians, it’s now insufficient to demonstrate that contact took place. Even demonstrating that collusion took place isn’t enough. The evidence has to be “hard” and the collusion must be “systemic, sustained,” and “furtive.”

4030

It’s a bit like the theory of relativity. If the speed of light cannot change, a lot of other stuff has to change to make the equations work.

Similarly, if Trump and his associates cannot do wrong, all else is malleable.

This is called a cult of personality.

4031
4032

Jesus. At what point can we all declare no confidence in the President of the United States and get our friggin’ country back from the Russians? I mean c’mon… seriously…

4033

It’s not collusion unless the Russians involved wore furry caps with a red star and specifically said “Da, comrade.”

4034

ftfy :). I knew that year in Monterey and another in Moscow would pay off someday!

4035

Imagine if whatever Russian elements–rogue, intel, state, whatever–decide that Trump isn’t playing ball and they want to whipsaw him. The stories they’ll tell…(likely true and untrue…)

4036

The revelation of additional participants comes as The Associated Press first reported Friday that a Russian-American lobbyist named Rinat Akhmetshin said he also attended the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. CNN has reached out to Akhmetshin for comment.

4037

I’m under the impression this is the long game for Russia. There are two outcomes of this shenanigans.

  1. Trumps administration bounces off of this long term and it becomes a spring board of how much bullshit you can get away with and extremely weakening our ability to function as a legitimate government (let as alone leader of the free world)
  2. Trump’s administration goes down and the country will go into chaos because how far will the rabbit hole go? Will Pence not be promoted due to affiliation with Trump’s admin? Will we have new elections?

I don’t see any outcomes that actually help the country break the divisiveness, and no matter what happens at this point we are fucked as a country.

4038

CNN now has CCTV footage of the attendees arrival.

4039

At the point when Republicans believe Russia is more un-American than liberals. So… don’t hold your breath.

4040

The presence of the Russian-American lobbyist, Rinat Akhmetshin, adds another twist to the evolving story about the meeting, which Donald Trump Jr. set up after learning that the lawyer had damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump Jr. also invited Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and a campaign adviser, as well as Paul J. Manafort, who at the time was the campaign chairman.