The president acknowledged that Russia interfered in the 2016 election on his behalf, then denied it three hours later.
I feel for anyone who has to work in the fog of cognitive dissonance that must permeate the White House.
Check that — I don’t feel for Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who comes across as a willing cog in the dissonance machine. But dang, it must be hard to tell up from down and left from right in that building, given the endlessly shifting signals coming from President Trump.
Thursday’s developments provide a perfect example. The barrels of ink spilled over special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s public comments, which many reporters interpreted as a not-so-subtle push for Congress to begin impeachment proceedings, got under Trump’s remarkably thin skin, prompting a tweet storm Thursday morning lashing out against Mueller and his staff. Nothing new there, except buried in one of the tweets was a stunning admission: that Russia had tried to help Trump win the 2016 election.
Russia, Russia! That’s all you heard at the beginning of this Witch Hunt Hoax… And now Russia has disappeared because I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected. It was a crime that didn’t exist. So now the Dems and their partner, the Fake News Media,…..
A mountain of evidence gathered by the U.
