Trump's true 100-day achievement - E.J. Dionne, S.L. Post-Dispatch

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In the outpouring of commentary on President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, his greatest single achievement is almost never mentioned,...
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The Flynn story is obviously heating up again, but let’s pause to ponder how Trump’s genius at evasion, diversion and prevarication helped him to keep the Russia story at bay. It should disturb us more than it seems to that the 100th day of Trump’s presidency on Saturday will also mark the beginning of the ninth week since Trump sent out his March 4 tweet-to-end-all-tweets charging that “Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory.”
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And there is this core Trump principle: A lie is as good as the truth as long as you can get your base to believe it. And sure enough, the new Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted last week found that by a margin of 52 percent to 32 percent, Republicans believe that “the Obama administration intentionally spied on Trump and members of his campaign during the 2016 election campaign.” This should keep Trump going for a while.
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At least as significant, both also expressed alarm at the White House’s refusal to turn over any documents on Flynn’s hiring and firing. There may be limits to Trump’s cagey sorcery.

But it’s still pretty impressive. Given the substantive emptiness of Trump’s presidency so far, his greatest achievement is that he is still standing there, making pronouncements as if he means them and moving noisily but without any clear plan from one thing to the next. Every day he can postpone his reckoning with Russia is a victory. St. Louis Post-Dispatch

45's powder keg is set to go off, as TRMS pointed out last night. His Baghdad Bob's (Nunes & Chaffetz) heads have already tumbled and the heat is getting turned up by Cummings, Schiff and other Democrats.

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