Trump scandal overload: Don Jr. remembers nothing; Republicans finally begin to face the facts

[DonViejo]

Amid Don Jr.’s memory failures, the big news is Republicans admitting that the Russians meddled to help Trump

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
MAY 17, 2018 12:40PM (UTC)

Wednesday was one of those scandal-detail-overload days. It's one thing if there is a big blockbuster scoop that changes everything: We all run toward the light. But days like Wednesday are filled with various emerging details of different aspects of the Trump scandals that are potentially important -- and in any other administration would cause bipartisan garment rending and calls for commissions, committee investigations and special counsels -- but come out of left field and don't really clarify anything.

Just to choose a couple of news nuggets yesterday, we learned from The New Yorker that the person who leaked Michael Cohen's financial information was a law enforcement official, who did so out of concern that some important reports seemed to have been removed from the central FBI and Treasury Department databases. It's possible that some data was walled off, perhaps by special counsel Robert Mueller's office, without nefarious intent. But corruption is so rampant in this administration, and the congressional majority is so protective of President Trump, that government bureaucrats are concerned that documents are being destroyed.

Keep in mind that the woman who is about to be confirmed as CIA director destroyed videotapes of torture. We learned just this week that the EPA had buried a major study about contaminated drinking water throughout the U.S. because it would be a "public relations nightmare." It's not really paranoid to wonder if there might be something hinky about Michael Cohen's financial records being "redacted" or deciding your best bet was to give the info to an outside lawyer.

Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani told The Washington Post that Mueller's office had assured him it planned to follow Justice Department guidelines that a sitting president cannot be indicted, sparking bold "breaking news" headlines. It later turned out, however, that Giuliani had heard this second-hand from Jay Sekulow, Trump's other lawyer, and it wasn't clear at all exactly what had been said:

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Trump defending Republicans will face a storm this fall....

By Democrats who will slam them for not holding this President accountable via checks and balances. They are complicit in all that Trump says and does.

For Congressional Republicans are not part of the solution, they are the PROBLEM.