Not that the trip is anywhere close to being over. I was just thinking how, in 2016, when it was reported that the Russians were interfering in the election, it seemed an outlandish suggestion. In my office, a co-worker, who was a Trump admirer, scoffed at the notion. "No way! Come on!" Indeed, for those of us used to political business as usual, it seemed like a bit of spy fiction.
Well, you know where we've been since then. At the beginning of his administration, Trump was all chummy with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, revealing highly classified information to them during their White House visit.
Then, there was January 6 attempted coup.
And now, look where we've arrived. Trump is under investigation for his possession of top secret documents that he took to Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House. If we thought that the idea of Russian interference with the 2016 election was eye-popping, it now seems very mild stuff compared to what followed. As they say, if you wrote this as fiction, nobody'd believe it.
