All of these crises are connected.

You know, tomorrow we're going to be talking about Trump's indictment for the extremely

piddling charge of, you know, sending hush money to a porn star, one of the rare women who slept with him voluntarily or so he claims,

you know, when he's committed a multitude of atrocities and crimes to which he's freely confessed,

you know, obstruction of justice, fomenting a coup, sedition, treason, abuse of the pardon power,

serious offenses. Then, of course, Kremlin interference in the 2016 election and, you know, plausible Kremlin

interference in the 2020 election.

And why was that interference done?

It was so the war on Ukraine by the Kremlin would be more easily accomplished. And so the barriers to that war,

like NATO and the EU and a democratic United States, would be eliminated. You know, this was not

some random plan. Like, this was a strategy. It was a strategy that was designed by people like

Paul Manafort, you know, who had worked with

Kremlin-leaning political groups in Ukraine to rearrange its internal politics and then simply

dragged the U.S., the U.S., the U.K., other countries, into the situation.

You know, and that's one of the core grains of this crisis.

And it often gets overlooked because so much time has passed and he's committed so many other atrocities that the initial shock of a Kremlin asset, inhabiting the White House, dictating foreign policy, prostrating himself to Putin in Helsinki, not being shy about any of his objectives,

you know, outright saying, you know,

as he has said since the late 1980s,

that, you know, NATO shouldn't exist,

that Russia should have more power.

And then, you know, once again, as he's campaigning,

as seditionists who attempt to overthrow the government always do in a healthy democracy, as he's campaigning, as seditionists who attempt to overthrow the government always

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