Unless that cooperation is now part of the broader strategy or plan. She spills, more disruption happens, she serves 6 months, then gets deported. Mission accomplished, and who knows what kind of juicy stuff she could just make up whole cloth to really throw some wrenches into the works.
Think about this at least two ways:
First, she could be seriously bad news for Trump specifically (and for a wide swath of his enablers peripherally), causing all manner of upheaval throughout the GOP especially.
And/or second, she could cause numerous investigations into the whole affair to derail by stuffing them with ‘bad intel’… what’s the worst that could happen to her now (in our Justice system?). More time for “lying”? Or a deportation?
She could end up being a perfect fly in the ointment on many levels, with the worst case being, she gets sent home to daddy…
She’s not “flipping on Putin”. I’m sure that simply isn’t happening. Instead, she’s perfectly positioned to keep stirring the pot and creating more chaos, with her “get out of jail free” pass just waiting to be claimed after a few short months.
She’ll more likely be welcomed home a hero. Let’s not forget that Russia’s defense so far on indictments for conspiracy have been to evoke Force Majeure. Meaning essentially, you can’t convict us because it was an act of war…
We might want to start thinking at that level at some point? This isn’t about “legality”, it’s about war.
It’s also a fact that the GOP have been talking about “war” vs everyone else in the country for quite awhile now as well.
We really need to stop treating these things as simple political differences, and instead, respond to the facts that we’ve had war declared on us (in no uncertain terms) by an American political party AND a hostile foreign adversary… and therefore it shouldn’t be so surprising to discover they may have been both sleeping in the same bed together…
