Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Saturday, May 12, 2018

Summary

Here's a twitter run down of where we stand with Mueller and Trump.  The first tweet seems important.  Every time another shoe drops, like with Cohen and Vekselberg's monetary relationship, we find out that Mueller has already interviewed the people involved.  We also know that Mueller's investigation has been airtight when it comes to leaks.  We have no idea what they know, but they know more than us.

And what we know, as the tweets suggest, is that this is the most corrupt administration in the country's history.  As Jamelle Bouie writes, Scott Pruitt alone is probably worse than Teapot Dome.  Michael Cohen's pay-to-play scam is as bad as the Whiskey Ring.  It's amazing that whenever a new story or allegation starts to break, we get a range of what it could possibly mean.  Almost invariably, the worst explanation is the operative one.  If every allegation is a confession, I like the tweet that snarkily suggests that before this is all done, we will find out the Trump was born in Kenya.

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