Dan Rather. (photo: Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
18 May 17
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.
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