Trump Sr., after all, explicitly implored Russia to hack Clinton’s private email server. None of this should surprise anyone who paid attention during last year’s campaign. We’ve gone from the Trump team saying they never even met with Russians to the president himself now essentially saying: So what if we did? initially said the meeting was about adoption, not a Russian offer of “ultra sensitive” dirt on Hillary Clinton. That’s politics!” And from elected Republicans, we get mostly silence-or embarrassing excuses. Instead, we get this from the president of the United States, explaining away his son’s encounter with Russian operatives who were advertised as working on behalf of the Kremlin: “Most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one Don jr attended in order to get info on an opponent. In any other era, our political leaders would be aghast at the rank opportunism, moral flippancy and borderline treasonous instincts on display.

Here, laid bare, are the impulses of a large swathe of today’s Republican Party.

Put aside the factual inaccuracies in this missive (it was not Hillary Clinton’s controversial private server the Russians are alleged to have hacked, despite Donald Trump’s explicit pleading with them to do so, but rather those of the Democratic National Committee and her campaign chairman, John Podesta).

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