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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

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Corruption All The Way Down

This summary of the latest revelations about Giuliani's complete skeeviness when it comes to representing bad actors is pretty damning.  Basically, Giuliani (and therefore Trump) were involved with all sorts of shady criminals coming out of the former Soviet Union.

The problem is that the deeper the corruption goes, the harder it is to follow. I consider myself a reasonably capable person, when it comes to understanding complicated stories, but after a certain point, the details bleed into each other and make it hard to understand exactly which oligarch extracted what favor from which Trump official.  This complexity is the wedge that Fox News will be able to use to cast doubts on the charges and impugn the investigation.

That's why the "quid pro quo" is so important.  It's simple. The tangled web of Trump's connections with Ukraine and Russia is complicated.  It would be really nice if we could hear some tapes of Trump's conversations with some of these people.

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