http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/
BRUTAL NY Times Op-Ed "The Plot Against America"
By Michelle Goldberg
Despite Trumps hysterical denials and attempts at diversion, the question is no longer whether there was cooperation between Trumps campaign and Russia, but how extensive it was.
In truth, thats been clear for a while. If its sometimes hard to grasp the Trump campaigns conspiracy against our democracy, its due less to lack of proof than to the impudent improbability of its B-movie plotline. Mondays indictments offer evidence of things that Washington already knows but pretends to forget. Trump, more gangster than entrepreneur, has long surrounded himself with bottom-feeding scum, and for all his nationalist bluster, his campaign was a vehicle for Russian subversion.
So heres where we are. Trump put Manafort, an accused money-launderer and unregistered foreign agent, in charge of his campaign. Under Manaforts watch, the campaign made at least two attempts to get compromising information about Clinton from Russia. Russia, in turn, provided hacked Democratic emails to WikiLeaks.
Weve had a year of recriminations over the Clinton campaigns failings, but Trump clawed out his minority victory only with the aid of a foreign intelligence service. On Monday we finally got indictments, but its been obvious for a year that this presidency is a crime.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/opinion/mueller-manafort-indictment.html