Rather, it will concern old-fashioned, sloppy corruption of the type Trump and his ilk – greedy pols and fraudulent businessmen – have engaged in for generations. Did Trump, in his reckless stupidity, obstruct justice? It’s possible.īut none of it will have to do with a fantastic collusion case. Between the dubious family business dealings and Cohen’s hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels, there’s plenty of material for prosecutors in New York to investigate.
Trump’s conflicts of interest are almost comical. Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, and Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney, are headed to prison. This is not to say, of course, Trump is not a future criminal and the Mueller investigation didn’t perform a service.
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But the siren song of ratings is too difficult for a TV personality ignore, especially when a television network is transformed from an also-ran into a top contender. In more sober times, this brand of analysis would barely cut it on a far-right podcast. On air, she would talk about the “continuing operation” – the idea that the Kremlin was controlling the Trump presidency itself. Maddow was not only certain that Russians had rigged the election. Putin could blackmail Trump into pulling troops from Russia’s border. During a cold snap, the Russian government could shut down our power supply. An American missile attack on Syria, Maddow concurred, could have been orchestrated by Putin himself. There was the time Maddow theorized that Trump was “curiously well-versed” in “specific Russian talking points”, strongly implying press briefings were dictated from the Kremlin. No twist was too minuscule or outlandish for Maddow every night, seemingly, brought another nail in the coffin of the soon-to-be-dead Trump presidency. The Mueller investigation was covered more on MSBNC than any other television network, and was mentioned virtually every day in 2018. And Maddow, MSNBC’s ratings juggernaut of the Trump era, is the embodiment of this overzealousness. Still, it’s abundantly clear now that many liberal outlets overdid it in their fervor. We are journalists, and our role is to report the facts as we know them, which is exactly what we did.” CNN’s president, Jeff Zucker, said: “We are not investigators. Other news executives have also defended their coverage. “It’s not our job to determine whether or not there was illegality,” he added. “We wrote a lot about Russia, and I have no regrets,” said the New York Times’ executive editor, Dean Baquet, in an interview after the Mueller report came in. CNN was a daily carousel of Russiagate pundits. Last year, New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait baselessly posited (in another cover story) that Trump may have been a Russian “asset” since 1987. The New Yorker once ran a cover in Russian, a stunt that will age as terribly as all cold war-era red-baiting has to our 21st-century eyes. At the top of the heap is none other than MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.
Robert Mueller’s determination that no evidence exists to prove Trump and Russian colluded to fix the election has exposed, once again, the venality of A-list political punditry. With Trump has come Russia: two years of conspiracy-mongering about whether the president, a failed real estate mogul and reality TV star consumed with dubious deal-making, conspired with the Russian government to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
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