It took Nixon a full term to get in trouble with the Watergate cover up. It took Clinton about the same period of time before he got into trouble with the whole Monica Lewinsky yarn. Yet, here we are not even two months into Caligula Lite’s governance and we have all this. Usually, it’s the perjury and obstruction of justice which gets politicians into trouble. Michael Flynn got canned not as much for the calls he made with the Russians, but more for the impression that he duped Mike Pence about the calls.
But now all hell has broken loose per the New York Times and Washington Post investigations into the whole Trump Russian thing. It turns out Trump’s Sec of Commerce Wilber Ross actually was an officer of a Cypriot bank which laundered money for Russian oligarchs. Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, has his prints everywhere amidst much of this, and then of course, now we have Jeff Sessions perjuring himself as to his contacts with a Russian ambassador during the campaign.
Here’s the thing, putting aside these Russian entanglements, Sessions, Ross, Scott Pruitt at EPA, Price at Health, and Devos at Education never should have been confirmed because they’re simply not up to the task of running their various departments. Add to the fact Steven Bannon and Stephen Miller shouldn’t be a part of any president’s inner core unless of course he’s Caligula Lite.
With the Times and the Post in a contest for each new revelation I’m pretty sure we’re no where near the end of all this. As ultimately–it will be Trump himself with direct conflict of interests with Russian interests which comes to light. All he would have to do primarily to end much of this is simply show his tax returns.
It’s literally exhausting following the Trump presidency.
In steady pursuit of the American capitalists in Russia. The hunt for the truth continues.