Current Trump Press Conference: I hope Russia finds Hillary's emails

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Painting Trump as some sort of Manchurian candidate sleeper agent is great fun in a hyperbolic just-between-us-leftists sort of way but bad strategy in terms of getting the average voter to believe that there's a problem here. Pointing out that Trump's inner circle is, for reasons still unknown, pushing him in an increasingly unapologetically pro-Russian policy direction that betrays America's treaty obligations, and that he's fundamentally unserious enough about American democratic processes to make this sort of joke (if it is a joke), is a bit of a harder sell in terms of sound-bite-ability, but is, hopefully, demonstrably true enough to stick if it can be sold effectively.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I just re-listened to his comments and it seems like he was being sarcastic.

The average American gets that.

The average Hillbot wishes that they didn't.

He repeated it multiple times yesterday and then tweeted about it.

I think he knows now he stepped in it.

He didn't step in a thing. You can not hack a server that is no longer in operation. Period.

I don't see any reason to believe that Trump knows that.