Controversial tricks of statecraft are, well, controversial. Virtually all administrations use them, hide them, blame each other for them, justify them, and use other controversies to avoid current controversies. That's how governments work.

But I'm noticing one simple thing about all these Trump-controversies. All of them, without exception have links to another country. Emails, leaks, fake news, shady contacts, steel for pipelines, torture; everything has links to one country, and it isn't Monaco. Weird.

If I believed in conspiracies, I'd believe in a conspiracy.