Thread by @ThePlumLineGS

1) The large outlines of the Russiagate scandal have long been sitting in plain sight:

Trump and his campaign encouraged, sought to benefit from, and worked to conspire with a foreign power’s sweeping effort to corrupt and degrade our political system.

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2) Trump engaged in active deception of the American people and an extensive effort to corrupt large swaths of our government -- some of which would certainly be prosecutable, if not for DOJ regulations -- to prevent that whole story from coming to light.

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3) Mueller detailed this story in painstaking, sordid detail. When Trump's propagandists trot out the “no collusion, no obstruction” lie, they are not merely making the legal point that charges were not brought on conspiracy or obstruction of justice.

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4) Rather, they are trying to make that broader narrative of wretched wrongdoing -- both on Trump’s part and that of Russia, because Trump himself believes talk of its interference effort taints his electoral victory -- disappear entirely.

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5) Trump's open invitation to another attack is devastating precisely because it throws that big story into new and sharper relief.

Trump's camp is frantically spinning away his remarks today. But they can't make this larger story disappear.

New piece:

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