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Watergate reporter remarks on the speed of RussiaGate events
A flood is coming that
will shape the future of our Republic in ways no one can predict.
Except that the speed
with which this has all happened, just over a hundred days into President
Donald Trump's dumpster fire of an administration, means it was all very
predictable.
And no one who played
a role in normalizing this President should be allowed to forget it.
We have news that the
Department of Justice, under Deputy Attorney General
Rod Rosenstein, will appoint a Special Counsel to
investigate the Russia interference scandal.
Apparently the President
was only given a 30 minute heads up, and it came while he was interviewing new
heads for the FBI. The Special Counsel will be former FBI Director Robert
Mueller.
These types of
investigations tend to stir up more dirt than anyone thought was there. We will
see if that happens now.
The stock market plummets. The White House staff is in chaos. The chorus of Republicans suddenly eager to be on the right side of history gets louder.
Most of the time Washington moves in slow motion - except when
it doesn't. And this moment is one of those times. We are living in a news
cycle that can be measured in nanoseconds.
And amidst the news, another blockbuster report by the
Washington Post. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy apparently said last June
that he thought Putin pays Trump.
At which point Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, who was also
there, stopped the conversation and swore those who were present to secrecy.
When the Post asked about the incident, spokesmen for both
representatives denied the story on the record.
When they were informed that the Post reporters had heard a tape
of the exchange, they changed their tune - saying it was a joke.
What all this makes clear is that the concerns which now
threaten the integrity of our government were well known and played for cynical
theater.
Well, the curtain may be coming down on this act of this
tragedy. New actors wait to take the stage for a drama for which the script is
yet to be written.