A sad feature of the response to Trump's treachery today has been seeing those who called qualified legal, military, law enforcement and national security professionals "crazy" for sounding the alarm on Trump and Russia *long ago* rubbing their eyes and saying, "What's going on?"
2/ What's going on is Malcom Nance is an intel expert; Laurence Tribe is a legal expert; Walter Schaub is an ethics expert; I'm a Harvard-educated criminal investigator and criminal attorney. *None* of us were "crazy" or "conspiracy theorists." Shame on these sleeping Americans.
3/ I'm sorry for being angry. But it's the smugness of those who wouldn't listen to experts in late 2016 and early 2017 but are now saying, "Huh! Who'd have thunk it?" that gets to me. *Many of us* thunk it, and tried to get people to listen. Some did; some were cynical and smug.
4/ Far more constructively: if you were one of those journalists or laypeople who relentlessly—and quite personally!—attacked the experts in many fields who were talking about Trump being compromised 18 months ago, you have a *greater than usual responsibility* to fight back now.
5/ Just got blocked by @scott_tobias, which is fine but underscores my point—you have millions of self-described middle-of-the-road Americans *very* comfortable tuning out things they don't want to hear even if they're supported by evidence and have to do with America's survival.
