Another dark day in the dark ages of Trump

President Donald Trump just bragged that Vladimir Putin has offered to send Russian government investigators to look into Russian government meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.

That is not a joke.

It’s the “interesting idea” Trump mentioned during the press conference after Monday’s closed-door meeting between the two leaders. An idea he said Putin proposed to address Russian involvement in America’s last election and its potential interference in future ones (including the 2018 midterm elections).

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In other words, this is Putin’s “interesting idea” to address exhaustively documented allegations that employees of the Russian government tried to interfere in the 2016 presidential campaign by hacking into, and publishing, private emails from one major party in the campaign:

- Have Russian government officials ask other Russian government officials if the Russian government told them to commit a crime.

- Let US officials watch Russian officials ask other Russian officials if the Russian government told them to commit a crime.

- Send Russian officials into the US to investigate allegations against domestic critics of Vladimir Putin.

  Vox

Also, he wanted a quid pro quo:  Give him access to Bill Browder.  The guy whose Russian lawyer was jailed and assassinated in Russia - Sergei Magnitsky.  Remember Magnitsky?  Remember Junior's Trump Tower meeting?

And this is Trump's public response:

"What he did is an incredible offer. He offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the 12 people. I think that’s an incredible offer."

It's an incredible offer, okay. As Charlie Pierce says, Jesus take the wheel.

UPDATE:



Indeed, we've had our dark moments.  But I can't say any surpass this.