Russia cloud settles in over Trump's White House

[riversedge]

Source: cnn



Updated 6:36 AM ET, Mon June 12, 2017
Investigations continue on key players in Trump's orbit


Story highlights

Sessions was scheduled to testify in public Tuesday
White House failed to change the subject last week with a focus on infrastructure

Washington (CNN)The Russia "cloud" is growing over President Donald Trump and threatening to wreck another week for the embattled White House as one of his closest allies tries to avoid a public spectacle on Capitol Hill.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions' announcement that he would testify before Senate Russia investigators caught everyone -- including the intelligence committee -- by surprise. Now, before he even testifies, the focus is both on Sessions and whether or not he would appear before the TV cameras like former FBI Director James Comey did last week, when 19.5 million Americans watched.


Trump team has struggled to move the focus away from Russia.

The White House is hoping this week to drive a message focused on his agenda. His daughter and top adviser, Ivanka Trump, is leading events focused on workforce development and college affordability.

But Russia -- and Trump's own tweeting -- threaten to swallow that effort whole, .......................

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/trump-sessions-comey/index.html

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[Doug the Dem]

1. Still Waiting for the Rain

With the Republicowards running Congress, we might be stuck here for awhile.

[jvill]

2. No policies

The problem with trying to get Ivanka, or whomever, to focus on "on workforce development and college affordability" is there's no there there. These guys are trying to distract people by talking about other stuff, but what material, concrete proposals do they have for "workforce development" (whatever that means) and for college affordability? Cheaper loans? Free college? What? As far as I can tell, all they've got is a lot of hot hair and promises that 70% of the population knows they won't fulfill, if they even pursue them at all a week from now.

The problem with trying to distract people from something of substance, like collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice, with empty BS is thinking people won't be distracted for long with the empty BS.