I find it interesting that there's been no mention of the investigation.
I wonder what they found at Manafort's house?
At age 44, I'm probably the last generation who can remember a time when Americans believed the USSR was "bad" because Russian people were only allowed to know what the government wanted them to know.
FFW 30 years and more than half of our government and 90+% of the American media is telling us Russia is "bad" because they exposed things about our government. I feel like I'm living in a bizzaro world.
Of course that's a very simplified view of the Russian investigation and it requires you to believe:
A) they actually pulled off the "hack" and fed info to wikileaks, which wikileak's founder denies.
B) that keeping confidential information on Gmail servers, cell phones or laptops carelessly tossed on the front seat of a car is acceptable practice.
C) that US intelligence agencies couldn't do the exact same thing and leave whomever's fingerprints they wanted on the crime scene.
D) that Russia is seeing some gain from a Trump admin that wants low fossil fuel prices vs. a Clinton admin which sold them uranium from the US.
E) that Americans don't have much more common interest with Russian society and values vs. insane asylums like Iran, Syrian rebels, Mexican gun runners, Chinese communists, or Venezuelan dictators the last administration loved so dearly.
F) that every region of the US except a narrow strip of densely populated coasts and a few badly run cities even needed
the Russians to convince us the establishment US political system was dysfunctional.
I think this is why most of the nation doesn't give a fig about this ever-expanding, partisan witch-hunt. In trying to explain the victory of a Republican president; it ignores the Republican landslides in 2014 and 2016 state elections.
The only reason "hacking" is even suggested is because Trump is essentially a 3rd-party candidate who took over the R's during primary elections. The establishment simply cannot accept the idea that a huge number of people outside the coasts are disgusted with their corruption, dysfunction, bloat and pandering for special interest votes. Something else must be made the reason so Trump can be deligitimized. Oh yeah, Brexit, Marine Le Pen, Poland and Hungry. Russia did that as well, right?
And finally let's not forget that Manafort was a Republican insider forced upon the Trump campaign for a short amount of time. They could find love letters from Putin in his nightstand; I'd assume it was a setup and I still wouldn't give a ****.