Well, I think the press makes me more uncivil than I am.

But in those rooms, you have cameras in the strangest places.

I was a nice student.

I did very well.

I'm a very intelligent person.

You better be careful.

Or you'll be watching yourself on nightly television.

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

The show about the man sent it Republicans love, but only on the record.

Donald Trump.

I'm Jacob Weisberg.

So the president is crowing, and not just because he got a standing ovation from people who

are afraid of him.

He's crowing about the revelation that Democratic money paid for the dossier.

That's the file of raw intelligence reporting that first-surface accusations of collusion

between Trump's campaign and the Kremlin.

Buzzfeed bravely published it earlier this year.

Let's admit that the optics here aren't great.

Trump has his talking point that the dossier was paid for by Hillary Clinton people.

He can dismiss it as political propaganda.

But does it matter who paid for the dossier?

Trump's Republican opponents were just as keen as Hillary Clinton was to find out the

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