22 October 2017

Trump Singes (grubby, little) Fingers
Trying to Torch (Steele) Dossier

Questioning who paid for the salacious document, 
the president reveals his real fear of its contents...

Evan Vucci/AP Photo
Like a poker player whose flagrant tell gives him away, President Donald Trump telegraphed a twitchy bit of direction to Trump Tower scandal-watchers this week.

Or was it indirection? After the founder of the oppo-research company Fusion GPS that commissioned the infamous Steele Dossier told the House Intelligence Committee he would take the Fifth Amendment if subpoenaed to testify, Trump responded with a brain-bender of a tweet that thrust the dossier to the center of the stage again....