’TWAS EVER THUS
Not since Senator Joseph McCarthy’s heyday have Americans been as worried about Russian interference in our domestic affairs. In June Dan Coats, director of national intelligence, said that in 2016 Russia had “conducted an unprecedented influence campaign to interfere in the U.S. electoral and political process.” Special counsel Robert Mueller has been running a fine-toothed comb through Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, seeking evidence of Russian skullduggery.
The largest trace uncovered so far has been a June 2016 sit-down at Trump Tower between son Donald Jr., son-in-law Jared Kushner, and campaign honcho Paul Manafort with a Brit publicist and a group of dodgy Russkies. For months young Trump claimed the topic to have been adoption policy, although in July 2017 he
