What about Putin's role in all of this?

[intrepidity]

Hard to believe that he isn't somehow involved. It would be contrary to everything we know about him. So easy to imagine his involvement, but to speculate would no doubt cast me as tin foil hat. Yet, the facts are, Putin is all about this kind of misdirection and manipulation.

His absence from recent discussions, makes his presence all the more plausible.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Tinfoil? Putin is in charge, always has been. When something affects him, he makes a call.

[BamaRefugee]

2. Phone calls from Walter Reed to Moscow:43 To Melania:1 and that was to tell her that the pre-nup

does NOT let her wiggle out of her dirty duties when he gets back from the hospital.

[RockCreek]

3. Meant tongue in cheek

I've wondered if Trump's crazy urgency to get home is because that is where his secret direct communicator to PaPa Putin is stored. !!

PS: 99% joking. I know steroid induced euphoria -- that's what it looks like to me.

[whathehell]

4. Putin's role in "all of this"..In all of what, exactly?

[intrepidity]

5. Recent events over this past week nt

[whathehell]

7. Putin seems to be involved in a number of things..

So it helps to be specific.

[better]

6. This is how I imagine it...