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In today's New York, Times, conservative columnist, Ross Douthat, has given up on any pretense of presumption of innocence of the Trump campaign and administration. In writing about Junior's emails and meeting with the Russian lawyer, Douthat wrote, "Then keep in mind, too, that all of this has come out (relatively) easily, thanks to digging by this newspapers reporters and leaks from the various factions in and around the White House, without the subpoenas and immunity deals that the formal investigations have at their disposal. That means there is probably more and worse to come, and the more there is, the worse the presidents dealings with James Comey look."
There's more in his column:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/opinion/trump-russia-collusion.html?ref=opinion
Meanwhile, at the National Review, David French has written a scathing attack on Junior's actions. "But to say that it (so far) appears that Donald Jr. didnt break the law isnt to defend his actions. To repeat, it now looks as if the senior campaign team of a major-party presidential candidate intended to meet with an official representative of a hostile foreign power to facilitate that foreign powers attempt to influence an American election. Russian collusion claims are no longer the exclusive province of tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorists. No American Democrat or Republican should defend the expressed intent of this meeting."
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449376/donald-trump-jr-e-mails-proof-trump-campaign-attempted-collusion-russia
Because I have a masochistic streak that manifests itself when I read conservative writers, the National Review's editorial board has written, "The worst case, on the other hand, is that the Trump Jr. meeting is only the beginning of damaging revelations about some sort of relationship between a Russian government determined to try to tip the scales in an American presidential election and the Trump campaign."
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449384/donald-trump-jr-meeting-russian-lawyer-email-revelations
I love it when Republicans start eating their own. Hope it continues.
PS: I miss the html formatting.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)Because the Republican Party is all in on Comrade Donald.
Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)So there is tons more out there, though this helped confirm another part of the Steele Dossier.
PJMcK
(21,916 posts)Just imagine how much information Mr. Mueller must have accumulated so far! With Trump's nefarious cast of miscreants, there's so much malfeasance that he better hire a few more lawyers!
pscot
(21,023 posts)last night, and what happened to html formatting? I wish it would come back