When it comes to the battle between Congress and President Trump, sometimes even the pundits become a little foreboding. Consider Steve Benen’s recent remarks concerning a recent report issued by the Senate Intel Committee:
The Senate Intelligence Committee issued a bipartisan report yesterday on how Russia used social media as part of the Kremlin-directed attack on the American elections. The document, released by Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.), made a series of recommendations about new laws to foreign interference, but it also served as an effective indictment against the perpetrators
Steve then notes the White House appears to still be attempting to discredit the notion that Russia interfered in the 2016 Presidential election in Trump’s favor, and the State and Justice Department Secretaries are going out of their way to dispute and discredit these findings.
Which leads to this:
Maybe one of these guys can read the bipartisan findings of the Senate Intelligence Committee? Or does Team Trump assume senators are part of a nefarious scheme?
It’s a little chilling, having read sometime in the last few years of the slaughter of the Roman Senators as the Roman Empire entered a disintegrative phase. While Roman Senators were distinguished by the requirement that their families be part of the elite class, it’s still enough to send a shiver down my spine.
