It is interesting to analyze what commonly happens with shocking information for people over time. Months go by, the reality of the shock begins to wear off and a kind of normality sets in. The erosion of the initial shock makes its management easier to live with.
To some extent this is what has happened over the last two years with Trump and the speculation surrounding the charge of his collusion with the Russians. Americans have become over time used to the speculation that an American presidential candidate may have actively worked with the Kremlin to gain the Presidency and make hundreds of millions of dollars to boot. People became caught in the details and spent less time focusing on the core piece – the actual collusion of a sitting President with Russian, enemy number One. The blatant criminality of this original sin got lost in the weeds a tad as Trump covered up and Mueller kept investigating.
Think back to those days in January 2017 when the media first began reporting that Michael Flynn, newly appointed National Security Advisor, appeared to have lied about his calls with the U.S. Russian Ambassador. When he finally resigned over his duplicity, some people began to think the unthinkable. Was it remotely even possible that Trump and his aides were up to some funny business with the Russians? Do you remember the feeling when this notion dawned on you? No, impossible! is what most Americans said to themselves. Such actions are too dastardly to even consider.
But as time went on, and the Mueller probe was launched, the reality of such a conspiracy became more and more real. And now as of yesterday, according to the article in the Daily Beast below, Mueller has the evidence which proves that -Oh yes, Trump and his aides did in fact try to pull off an ignominious first. A sitting President and his cronies conspired with the Russians to win the election and then as a result the President became a pawn in the Russian game of undermining the dominance of the U.S.. as a world power..
As has become now obvious, once the cover-up began in earnest, and Trump tried to cover up the sins, he fell under the complete control of Putin. He was forced to dance to their tune or risk having them reveal his unprecedented betrayals. Overall, Trump twisted U.S. foreign policy decisions to match up with what the Russians demanded and lied to the Congress, the American people and the world to cover up his compromised position.
Lets then go back to those first days in January 2017 when Flynn blundered into allowing the first crumbs of evidence to come dribbling out. Hang on to your original shock as you muse about Trump’s unprecedented act of betrayal to the country and to sabotaging the election. His actions easily blast Watergate and Nixon out of first place as the most criminal administration and president in U.S. history. The vise is clamping down on Trump and no amount of wriggling, subterfuge or Twitter rants is going to free him from Mueller’s grip. Justice will prevail, finally and Americans can then face the daunting task of repairing the political and cultural wreckage Trump has wrought.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-is-telling-us-hes-got-trump-on-collusion?ref=wrap