George Conway, one of the anti-Trump Republicans behind the Lincoln Project, says this…
This Russian-bounty story is as huge a presidential scandal as there can be. It's an order of magnitude more outrageous than what he got impeached for, even though the Ukraine scandal was plainly criminal from the beginning. And it's clearly not going away.
He's right. It's like Fate (call it God if you like) is telling us, "You've really, really got to get rid of this Trump guy" so every week, it gives us a new outrage which on its own would be reason enough…a pandemic, a horrific abuse of power, a racist appeal, riots that bring out the worst in him, a financial scandal…now this. Jonathan Chait ticks off all the different ways the White House is defending itself and, like most White House defenses, they confess as much as they try to explain.