Russia scandal reaches tipping point
Right Turn Opinion by Jennifer Rubin
February 23 at 12:30 PM
Until this week, the Russia connections of President Trump, his advisers and his campaign were “only” a media story, a trigger for international intelligence investigations (foreign intelligence services, like ours, are running down leads, no doubt) and a foreign policy nightmare (Will he betray Europe? Will he relax sanctions?). Now it is a political nightmare for Republicans.
The intrigue surrounding Michael T. Flynn put the story front and center. The Senate Intelligence Committee’s renewed vigor suggests that there is something to be found ...
Meanwhile, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, created a stir on Thursday during a radio interview when she suggested that Flynn should come testify. Even more significant, when asked about using the subpoena power to demand the president’s tax returns, she said: “I don’t know whether we will need to do that. If it’s necessary to get to the answers, then I suspect that we would.”
Well, absent a full voluntary disclosure of Trump’s finances, we find it hard to see how it would not be necessary. Quite apart from Russia, a flurry of reports on his trademarks bestowed by foreign powers suggests that he has a serious emoluments problem under the Constitution. With regard to Russia specifically, the plot keeps thickening. The New York Times reported that longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen met with pro-Russia Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii V. Artemenko and Felix H. Sater, a Trump associate who helped search for business deals in Russia (where Trump says he has no connections) as late as 2015. Now Ukraine is looking at treason charges against Artemenko. Shouldn’t Cohen and Sater, at the very least, be called to testify about Russian deals involving Trump? ...
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Glad he didn't choose Dems !!!!!!!!!!! 
