That’s the title of an excellent article from Moon of Alabama that puts a lot of pieces together.
Scott Lazarowitz also has a piece on this affair, and it’s also excellent.
This whole affair is at least as big as the Dreyfus Affair. In some ways it’s bigger. It’s way bigger than Watergate. It’s still unfolding because the anti-Trump forces are still coming up with (imagining, constructing) new (fake) angles all the time. People like Carl Bernstein are making fools of themselves. He’s now saying that Trump “has helped Putin destabilize the United States and interfere in the election.” This is so patently ridiculous that it defies belief. There was no destabilization of our government, and because there was none, there is also no evidence of it. It is not at all clear that this term means anything real in this case. There is no evidence either that Trump “helped Putin” in the latter’s efforts (do they even exist?) to destabilize the U.S. government. What’s Bernstein talking about? He’s weaving a fabric from Wikileaks to a silly Trump Tower meeting to a joke made by Trump. The whole cloth is woven from threads that melt away at the first touch. If we took Bernstein seriously, we’d have to hunt far and wide for political news that did NOT destabilize the government.
7:03 pm on January 13, 2019
