The explosive revelations from the NY Times continue apace today, as they publish the full email chain as evidence of young Donny's collusion with the Russians. The coverup that the administration was attempting has been blown out of the water, for the umpteenth time.
- Here is the NY Times piece: Donny knew full well he was meeting with Russians who were offering dirt on Clinton, and his response: “If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.”
- The BBC's analysis: "The pattern has been set. The New York Times runs a story, Trump Jr issues his response, then the noose tightens."
- The Washington Post is now going so far as to report that this is concrete evidence of attempted collusion by the Trump campaign.
- Trump put out a very brief statement defending his son: "My son is a high quality person and I applaud his transparency." Given Trump's usual love of superlatives, that's damn close to a back-handed compliment.
- Donny tried to get ahead of the NY Times story by tweeting the email chain himself. Wow. Talk about implicating himself, Kushner, Manafort and the entire Trump campaign and administration in multiple ways! The narrative is completely out of his control now, and there will be no recovering it.
- Here's a fairly readable summary of where things stand. You just know this is going to get worse before it gets better, too...
- Trump is presently claiming he knew nothing. However... Two days before the now infamous meeting, Trump promised big news about Hillary's crimes the following week.
- Conway, as always, is claiming that nothing underhanded occurred. I automatically choose to believe the opposite of anything that she says, so something was definitely going on.
Meanwhile:
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