Just How Much Trouble Is Trump In, Really?
Reaction to a Mueller bombshell is muted, but then it’s still kind of early.
Dark days for President Donald Trump.
Photographer: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images
You may not have noticed it, but we recently glimpsed possible proof President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 election. The fact that you may not have noticed is telling.
Last week, or 1,000 years ago in Trump time, lawyers for Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, let slip their client has been accused by special counsel Robert Mueller of sharing polling data with a Russian operative during the campaign. The story barely made a peep, even in the Very Fake and Failing Media supposedly out to get Trump. That it wasn’t a much bigger deal is disturbing, writes Noah Feldman, portending a future in which Mueller presents evidence of Trump malfeasance, resulting in … nothing, thanks to a combination of public fatigue, Republican intransigence and Democratic cowardice. This would be a disaster for our democracy, Noah writes.