Conservatives are turning on Trump

[PJMcK]

In today's New York, Times, conservative columnist, Ross Douthat, has given up on any pretense of presumption of innocence of the Trump campaign and administration. In writing about Junior's emails and meeting with the Russian lawyer, Douthat wrote, "Then keep in mind, too, that all of this has come out (relatively) easily, thanks to digging by this newspaper’s reporters and leaks from the various factions in and around the White House, without the subpoenas and immunity deals that the formal investigations have at their disposal. That means there is probably more and worse to come, and the more there is, the worse the president’s dealings with James Comey look."

There's more in his column:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/opinion/trump-russia-collusion.html?ref=opinion

Meanwhile, at the National Review, David French has written a scathing attack on Junior's actions. "But to say that it (so far) appears that Donald Jr. didn’t break the law isn’t to defend his actions. To repeat, it now looks as if the senior campaign team of a major-party presidential candidate intended to meet with an official representative of a hostile foreign power to facilitate that foreign power’s attempt to influence an American election. Russian collusion claims are no longer the exclusive province of tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorists. No American — Democrat or Republican — should defend the expressed intent of this meeting."

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449376/donald-trump-jr-e-mails-proof-trump-campaign-attempted-collusion-russia

Because I have a masochistic streak that manifests itself when I read conservative writers, the National Review's editorial board has written, "The worst case, on the other hand, is that the Trump Jr. meeting is only the beginning of damaging revelations about some sort of relationship between a Russian government determined to try to tip the scales in an American presidential election and the Trump campaign."

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449384/donald-trump-jr-meeting-russian-lawyer-email-revelations

I love it when Republicans start eating their own. Hope it continues.

PS: I miss the html formatting.

[annabanana]

1. I thing real conservatives turned on him some time ago.. . . n/t

[Renew Deal]

3. Then there aren't many of them around

Because the Republican Party is all in on Comrade Donald.

[Renew Deal]

2. The Jr. stuff is supposedly new to Mueller.

So there is tons more out there, though this helped confirm another part of the Steele Dossier.

[PJMcK]

8. Robert Mueller's portfolio must be bulging

Just imagine how much information Mr. Mueller must have accumulated so far! With Trump's nefarious cast of miscreants, there's so much malfeasance that he better hire a few more lawyers!

[pscot]

4. Krauthammer attacked Jr on FOX

last night, and what happened to html formatting? I wish it would come back

[PJMcK]

6. The html formatting was "turned off" after DU was hacked a few months ago (n/t)

[Kleveland]

5. The box full of starving rats can always use a few more rats! n/t

[PJMcK]

7. Let the feeding continue! (n/t)