Trump seems to have set a new record for how few days into an administration people would start asking, "What did the president know and when did he know it?" And they don't even seem to have their story straight with Kellyanne Conway running around today denying reports that Trump demanded Flynn's resignation and Paul Ryan insisting Trump did. If this had happened in a Democratic president's administration, Republicans would be launching impeachment proceedings right now. At the very least, they'd begin a string of hearings and investigations that would run longer than The Price is Right.
But to paraphrase D.J.T. himself, he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight and the House Oversight Committee would not look into it. They'd probably schedule a few more hearings on Benghazi instead. Here's some reading material…
- David Corn on why this whole Michael Flynn thing needs to be investigated.
- David Dayen on what Trump, who once promised to watchdog Wall Street, is planning to do. Basically, he's going to let them do any damned thing they want. I cannot fathom why anyone ever thought he would do anything else but apparently a lot of people did.
- And Joe Conason has more about Trump and Wall Street and why we're going to be seeing a lot of the word "bailout" in the future…which, of course, applies only to saving rich people who didn't make as much money as they wanted. The Trump Administration ain't bailing out anyone but Donald's buddies.
And I have a busy day so that's it for now. You can find plenty of other articles online about all this. Me, I'm going to post this and then go try to think about other things.