.MaddowBlog: Sen. Lindsey Graham finds a new place for the Russia scandal goalposts.
“I told the president that if you colluded with the Russians, if your campaign sat down and worked with foreign intelligence operatives to manipulate the results of the election, that’d be the end of us, ” Graham said.
This is plainly foolish. Russia launched a military intelligence operation targeting American elections, for the express purpose of putting Trump in power. It was, by most objective measures, the most serious attack against the United States since 9/11, and there’s an investigation underway to determine whether, and to what extent, the Kremlin had American confederates who cooperated with their plot.
Time will tell what the evidence shows, but now is an excellent time to start establishing some baseline standards. To hear Graham tell it, if Team Trump and Moscow worked together to manipulate election results, that wouldn’t be acceptable – but the implication of this is that everything short of this can and should be tolerated.told
NBC News, there will never be a contract, signed by Trump in blood, that says, “Hey Vlad, we’re going to collude.” And to suggest that such a contract signed in blood is what’s necessary to justify the importance of the scandal is a mistake.
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