Donald Trump IS a dissolute creature. Because of this, it has always been a mystery why he would want to be President of a country he loathes. I'm not sure he did, but saw the run as an opportunity to make money. His patron, however, had a different agenda. He wanted to get back at HER, and us. Trump is the perfect tool. He is easily manipulated, is not smart, and impossibly weak.

As President, Trump has done Putin's bidding at every opportunity, often in obvious and obsequious fashion. Because Trump is famously incapable of following a plan to conclusion, then, it is surprising that he has done so with the Justice Department. If you think about the targets Trump had attacked at Justice, what do they have in common? Not anti-Trump bias (as he'd have you believe), rather, they have all, at one time or another, been a thorn in Putin's side.

I'll post detail later, but the gist is this: They were all responsible for investigating and prosecuting Russian organized crime. Andrew McCabe was a supervisory special agent at the Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force, beginning in 2003; Peter Strzok was lead agent in the FBI's "Operation Ghost Stories" against Andrey Bezrukov and Yelena Vavilova, a Russian spy couple who were part of the Illegals Program, a network of Russian sleeper agents who were arrested in 2010. He rose through the ranks in counterespionage and counterintelligence; Lisa Page, same, and Bruce Ohr, ditto.