beautiful when it s raining. trump is trying really hard to be that figure, and the question is, do the rest of the republicans around him fall in line and allow that to happen? that speaks to a political point that can get lost here, which is if you don t care about the ethics and the rules of all this, and donald trump just wanted to do domestic poll t politicking and put this all in the rear view, didn t have some reason, ego or debt, or nefarious reasons in the dossier and elsewhere, for placating russia, he wouldn t have to go act like that with putin, then suck up to him, and then say he s got a white house invite. at a certain point. it doesn t look like a debate that happened over 2016 that people are roar sharking, it looks like a thing that s happening in slow motion before our eyes. absolutely. it stretches the imagination that donald trump came in with a very sophisticated foreign