Well, today's big news seems to be that Trump is being investigated for Obstruction of Justice. Remember back when he wasn't yet and how important it was to him to get James Comey (or someone) to tell the world that? Well, he seems to be now. Things can't be too jolly in the White House — or wherever he is — tonight.
What's more, journalists like Josh Marshall are theorizing that this investigation wasn't launched by Special Counsel Robert Mueller but by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and that a whole lot of Trump associates are under suspicion for various crimes, some of them financial. So it may not be a matter of "Will Trump fire the Special Counsel to shut down the investigation of him?" but "Will Trump fire a number of people in the Justice Department to shut down a whole series of investigations?" In other news…
- "By a 97-2 vote, the U.S. Senate approved stronger sanctions on Russia Wednesday and took the first step toward limiting President Trump's ability to ease those sanctions." He can't be happy about that, either. Here's the whole story.
- As Ed Kilgore notes, the American Health Care Act is about as popular as projectile vomiting…and this is over a wide political spectrum. This is not something that Trump voters and Republicans love and Democrats hate. Just about everybody dislikes it and they haven't even read the Senate version of it yet! Are our elected officials really going to pass this thing? Or is the idea here that at Trump's insistence, it's going to be vastly improved, and people will think it's better even though it's just a little less terrible…and Donald will claim he saved the day?
- David Margolick has a theory about that strange televised meeting where all the members of Trump's cabinet praised him for his greatness.
Meanwhile, Trump may get a break in the next few days whenever the verdict in the Bill Cosby trial knocks him off the front page for a day or so. I don't know which way it will go but reporting from the courtroom suggest that if Cosby is acquitted, it will be because his lawyers convinced the jury that it was not rape but just a really, really bizarre mutual romance. Frightening.