And Chris Hayes leads with it.
“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”, shouted Admiral Trump at the helm.
God I fucking hope putin dies laughing his ass off.
Holy shit! Look at Richard Burr’s Twitter stream! He’s been tasked by McConnell with impeding and burying the investigation. He was the perfect man for the job because, being an opportunistic chameleon who rode Trump’s coattails to reelection, he’s safe for another six years. But this has him scrambling and gauging the speed of approaching buses.
A public servant of the highest order. And Trump gave him the kiss of death after he won the election.
I imagine a lot of compromised republicans must be fricking scared to death right now.
Charlie Pierce’s take is great. Everybody is using both hands in a futile attempt to cover their own asses, so there’s not a one on the wheel.
So how does this change the risk calculus for the folks in the intelligence community who have interesting data and were waiting for a by-the-book investigation to uncover it? Are we going to see the leaks increase, or dry up?
Clarkw can’t eeven spell vigalanete… vigilangnteeis… vigel… taking the law into his own hands,
Neck deep in the Big Muddy,
And the Big Fool says to push on.
Mitch McConnell’s Supreme Court move gave us a big shove in the direction of this crisis.