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Dan Rather:

The questions are obvious. The answers are wanting. We the American people deserve to know what in God's name is happening. Our legal system demands a presumption of innocence until the evidence proves otherwise. And the evidence is piling up.

I have been around a long time. I like to think I have seen a lot. But the revelations of the emails that set up the meeting between Donald Trump. Jr. - and let us not forget both Paul Manafort and Jarod Kushner - with an agent of the Russian government is unlike anything I could even have imagined. There is still a lot that we do not know. But only a hypocrite, a cynic or a fool could argue that this development can be innocuously explained.

it is like a carnival mirror is being held up to American democracy, distorting everything we thought we knew into grotesque new shapes. We need a reality check. This is decision time, especially for our elected officials. Which side of history will you be on?

 

White House Won’t Say Whether Kushner Still Has Security Clearance

 

Oh Boy

"Philip Bump at the Post just flagged this Trump speech from June 7th, four days after Don Goldstone’s first contact with Don Jr and two days before the meeting at Trump Tower on June 9th.

Trump promises big news about Hillary Clinton’s crimes in a speech on “probably” June 13th.”

 

It's like Rather smoked a J and read a little HST before writing that.

 

Oh boy ... collusion blue balls.

 

I don't know that it has been mentioned yet, but wouldn't the DT Jr emails provide the basis for conspiracy charges against Fredo, Manafort, and Jared?

 

Only one guy for him to really flip on, and not a chance in hell of that.

 

Sigh.

 

The Media Is Not Asking the Right Questions on Trump Jr. Emails and Meeting with the “Russian Government Lawyer”

 

In its own tiny way, the hiring of Mueller and his assembling a dream team of prosecutors and investigators almost seems wasteful now. Elle Woods could crack this open while getting a mani-pedi after class.

 

Mitch and the gang will work overtime to fuck the poors out of their health care.

McConnell: Senate will work through first two weeks of August recess