But over the past several months, the wheels have come off the Trump
administration. Whether that's because responsible grown-ups resigned
and were replaced by partisan hacks or because staffers have been ground
down by struggling to contain an ignorant and angry president for
months and years at a time is something that presidential historians
will try to answer once all of this is behind us. What's clear in the
present is that by this past summer, Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy
Giuliani set out to warp and subvert American foreign policy, turning it
into an arm of the president's conspiracy-addled re-election campaign.
The plan was to force a vastly weaker foreign government into colluding
with the campaign for the purpose of digging up dirt on the president's
political rival.
The rest of his bilge is here.
