“We’re all wondering this question, Speaker Pelosi, what do you think [Vladimir] Putin has on him?” White House press secretary turned MSNBC White House spokesperson Jen Psaki asked the former speaker of the House this week. “I mean, it sure seems like something, as you’ve said a few times, given that he refuses to criticize him, that he seems to be a fanboy of him. Are you worried?”
By “him,” of course, Psaki is referring to Donald Trump. He is virtually the only thing they talk about. Psaki can beg the questions because Trump recently went on a hyperbolic rant about our European allies failing to meet their North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) obligations—a decades-long problem.
“I don’t know what he has on him, but I think it’s probably financial,” Pelosi theorized. “Either something financial he has him on or something on the come — something that he expects to get.”
If Democrats had common decency, they would cook up a fresh conspiracy theory for us in 2024, because, really, the prospect of reliving the same hysterics over Russia for another year—or four—is just depressing. Yet Russia collusion fanfic is on the uptick as the 2024 presidential election approaches. The reboot features many of the same characters—Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and so on—who are already scaremongering about Putin’s influence on the GOP.
Now, I don’t care how much you detest Trump. Accusing him of being a foreign asset or a spy, or contending that he’s being blackmailed, are stupid smears. Only
