I think we're going to look back on 12/1/17 as the day everything changed in the Donald Trump presidency. From here on, he's playing defense, not offense, even if he'll pretend otherwise. Also, the reports of contact with Russia can no longer be dismissed as "fake news," though they surely will be. One of the amazing weapons of this administration is its determination to insist that everything is good news for Donald Trump. Every development is a smashing, unprecedented success. Every revelation in this case is total vindication. Every report that goes against this is fake news from the lying media.
You can get away with that for a while…and if Trump was six months from the end of his final term, he might be able to tough it out. Alas for him, we're 315 days into Term #1. I have no idea when this man will be out of office but for each remaining day, he and his cronies will be under investigation with indictments pending. That is unless he does something to halt the investigations, in which case that will be the scandal that will bring him down.
So the most immediate question is what will he do next to make things worse? His Twitter account was oddly quiet today. It usually isn't on Saturday mornings so we may awake to something batshit crazy. Or we may awake to a silent or temperate Trump who's letting the response be controlled by saner heads who've passed the bar. All I know is I'm getting real tired of living in interesting times.