A Big Shoe Just Dropped

[Hortensis]

12. This (!), and the Senate Intelligence Committee after

meeting with FBI Director Comey officially asked more than a dozen agencies to save all materials of their investigations into the Russian stuff. Seems like that would be SOP from the very beginning for any honest and honorable investigations, but in any case something's apparently made this about-face (ass covering) seem necessary now.

Sater likely has nothing to do with it himself, but there is also the question of who something like 19%(?) interest in a Russian state-owned oil company was transferred to. The story is that it was to be payola to someone/some people for getting U.S. sanctions against Russia dropped. It would presumably be worth many billions once our sanctions ended and Russian oil production revved up.

That said, we shouldn't get too excited about imagining 45 will be succeeded by 46 any time soon. After all, Watergate took 2 years to resignation when most people believed Nixon was involved right from the beginning, including the conservatives who reelected him.

Democrats seek to quell Trump impeachment talk, Party leaders caution against rushing into a political trap.
Democratic officials in Republican-dominated Washington view the entire subject as a trap, a premature discussion that could backfire in spectacular fashion by making the party appear too overzealous in its opposition to Trump. Worse, they fear, it could harden Republican support for the president by handing his party significant fundraising and political ammunition when the chances of success for an early impeachment push are remote, at best.