Putin all but admitted yesterday that Russia was behind the leaked DNC emails and by implication the social media infiltration with bots and trolls. Whether the Trump campaign new this before taking office we may find out in due course as Robert Muller's investigation moves forward. If they did and indeed if they collaborated with the Russians that would be damaging and potentially criminal. Suppose however they did not. What then explains the administration's extraordinary defensiveness?
One possibility is that when Muller starts "pulling on the thread" other things that have nothing to do with Russia's rigging of the election might come to light. These may be illegal or simply unethical, from pay for play to financial conflicts of interest. But coming from a background where sailing as lose to the wind as possible without getting caught, Trump and his advisors may be worried that they have somewhere, and they may not know where, stepped over the line. They may also fear, perhaps rightly, that if they are in a grey area, neither on one side or the other, in the current toxic political climate (for which they have in large part only themselves to blame) they may find themselves being judged to have crossed the line. The investigation is likely to run on long after the circus has ceased to be entertaining. Time will tell.
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