I agree with Steven, it feels like yesterday was a milestone and things are considerably darker today. A series of tweets from David Rothkopf lays things out pretty clearly. Who's he? This is from his company's website:Today feels different. Sadder, more infuriating, more sickening and closer to the end when the country and its leaders can no longer avoid the scale of criminality committed by Trump & his co-conspirators to defraud the electorate, enrich themselves & cheat their way into the WH.— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) December 8, 2018
His tweet thread from last night is getting a lot of love in my timeline:
So we know this, Russian government representatives reached out to the Trump campaign in 2015 and undertook multiple initiatives and had multiple points and series of contacts with Team Trump for the next couple years.— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
It's not just the Trump Tower meeting. It's not just the interactions with Wikileaks. It's not just the Russian ties to Cambridge Analytica. It's not just Konstantin Kiliminik, a Russian agent working hand in hand with campaign chair Paul Manafort.— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
It's not just the ties between Flynn and the Russians. it's not just the links between the Russians and Eric Prince through the meeting in the Seychelles and beyond that. It's not just the ties of Wilbur Ross. It's not just the Trump Organization dealings with Russia.— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
It's not just Jared Kushner's dealings with Russia. It's not just Kushner and Flynn's dealing with Kislyak during the campaign. It's not just the candidate Trump asking for Russian help. It's not just the GRU hacking for which indictments have already taken place.— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
We can go on. But let's not stop before we discuss the many benefits the Russians delivered to Trump via hacking, the dumping of files, the manipulation of social media and other avenues...all to support Trump over Clinton. Nor should we fail to discuss the benefits Trump...— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
...offered the Russians since he gained power. There was his covering up their hacking and his efforts to slow investigations of it. There was his denying the conclusions of the intelligence community about the Russians. There were the talks between Flynn and the Russians...— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
...about waiving sanctions. There were the meetings with Trump when he was president when he handed over classified information to the Russians. There were whatever promises or concessions were made in Helsinki. There was a pattern of placating the Russians or...— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
...failing to enforce sanctions for months and months. In other words, there was plenty of quid and plenty of quo ($50 million penthouse apartments and the promise of big deals or financing benefits aside).— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
From the outreach to Cohen to just the first mos of the admin we can count more than a dozen separate avenues of connection at the highest level. In any normal campaign or administration, just one would set off alarm bells and have the president calling the FBI into action.— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
But instead, in addition to those dozen avenues, the offers that were explicitly or tacitly accepted, benefits to both sides & the overt betrayal of the U.S. to advance the political or economic interests of Trump and those close to him, we have the president obstructing justice.— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
Actively obstructing. Threatening to fire all those getting closer to the truth. Lying and lying and lying some more and urging staff to lie and witness tampering and so on.— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
This is not a case of possible collusion. This is sweeping, multi-layered, high level conspiracy led by Vladimir Putin and the Russian intelligence community and involving the active cooperation and complicity of a man who was a candidate for president and then president...— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
...as well as his entire team. This is the biggest scandal in the history of the American presidency and there is not another that is close to it. But that is not all we know.— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
The DoJ believes the president of the United States directed the commission of campaign finance felonies as a candidate. The NYT produced extensive and compelling evidence of serial tax fraud by the Trump family. The state of NY is investigate fraud in their charities.— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
The House will soon begin investigation of Trump money laundering. A case involving his violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause is under way. In other words, as massive as the Russia scandal is, it might not be the biggest Trump scandal.— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
It might not even be the scandal that brings Trump down. But what we know is that all of these or any of these scandals must bring him down. This criminal has no business being the White House. He has no business walking freely among us.— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
2019 is going to be the worst year of Donald Trump's life except for all those that will follow it. These cases will be investigated further and then proven. Some may be prosecuted while he is in office. Some may wait until he leaves office.— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
But someday this is already certain, no senior American public official--not Richard Nixon, not Andrew Johnson--will go down in more disgrace or be more reviled by history than Donald Trump. And that is as it should be.— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) December 8, 2018
And one more thing. Yes, this really is the president of the United States:
....left and right, he then woke up from his dream screaming that HE LIED. Next time I go to Vietnam I will ask “the Dick” to travel with me!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2018
Update. Must add this:
Aside from how absurdly below the office of the president this is, it’s worth noting that the closest that Trump got to combat in Vietnam was when he said that “avoiding STDs” was his “personal Vietnam.” https://t.co/KWZOLrsWZp— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) December 8, 2018
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