a national hero ask me what was reuben s nationality and i would say he was a european born in germany employed in italy and hired by the rulers of england spain france and the netherlands. from his base in antwerp e cultivator to name norma s network that opened. an inordinate. rubin studio became a veritable image factory. he hired a small army of students to help meet demand from patrons at home and abroad. his career blossomed. he was a master of using motifs from antiquity for his own creative output.
investigators and journalists every day track down more and more information about the inordinate and bewildering number of contacts between trump campaign figures and russian officials during the course of the campaign and thereafter. that s where the real drama is in terms of the day to day reporting on this scandal. but here is why i think it s time to get real about what that means. the russian attack on the election was an attack by a foreign power on the united states for sure. that may or may not be a crime. possibly it is. maybe it is. but we don t really know and we don t know what crime that would be. it s a fairly unique circumstance, right? beyond that, beyd just the russians attacking, the question of some american, any amerin cooperating in that attack by a foreign power, well, obviously that shocks the conscience. it could conceivably be treason to the extent that it meant that the perpetrators adhered to enemies of the united states. but honestly, i m not sure where