Dan sent us this note after seeing more of the endless diversionary tactics employed by team Trump.  To that end he notes a wonderful piece by E.J. Dione in the Washington Post who wrote:  

• “[T]he president and his lieutenants have realized that lying works; shameless dissembling is now standard operating procedure for the White House. Partisan outlets go with President Trump’s versions of events, even when they are demonstrably false. Mainstream outlets feel duty bound to report them, even as they debunk the lies.
• Moreover, our chief executive instinctively knows what Alexander Hamilton taught long ago: that the despot’s “object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.’ ” If the news gets troublesome, Trump and his minions create all manner of controversies and distractions that consume a lot of media space and time.

Dan adds–“About the investigative hurricane enveloping President Trump, there is so much diversionary news-chat going off in so many different directions, and so many efforts by Mr. Trump and his allies to create a diversion, that it’s difficult not to sigh in a combination of confusion and fatigue.

“So let’s just cut to the core, and stay focused on it. The core being: Russia was genuinely and heavily committed to strewing havoc in the U.S. Presidential election. While they were doing so, major Trump campaign operatives were holding secret meetings with Russians, seeking their help.

“These facts alone demand that a full investigation and accounting go forward. And they indicate that the case represents potentially a political corruption and betrayal scandal the likes of which has no equal in the history of our country.  Watergate began as a domestic crime.  This was an attack on our nation by a sovereign power.

Facts and the heart–the core–of the story are what matter; all the rest is just chatter.”