Set-up

"Whistleblower Exposes Key Player in FBI Russia Probe: “It was all a Set-up”" (Carter).  This raises the (slight) possibility that it is Putin who is behind Russiagate!  I can't imagine a more self-destructive thing for the American Deep State to do, so Putin, through Halper - who seems to be the one guy with connections to everybody involved - and Halper's Russian connections, set the whole thing up!  It is reminiscent of the insanity that ended Angleton's career, the self-destructive fruitless search for a Russian mole within the CIA.

"Christopher Steele Worked For Sanctioned Russian Oligarch While Composing Sham Dossier: Solomon" (Durden):

"To recap: Bruce Ohr = the #4 official at the DOJ, met with a billionaire friend of Vladimir Putin, in a sit-down arranged by Christopher Steele. Steele and the DOJ, meanwhile, were accusing Donald Trump of collusion with Putin - while the Obama administration used Steele's dodgy dossier to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign aide Carter Page."

"CNN, Credibly Accused of Lying to its Audience About a Key Claim in its Blockbuster Cohen Story, Refuses to Comment" (Greenwald). "Trump CRUSHES Sloppy Old Lying Kike Bernstein" (Anglin).  "CNN Throws Lanny Davis Under The Bus, "Stands By" Its Cohen Story" (Durden).  It is also quite stunning that Cohen has hired as a lawyer a guy known as an extremely close Clinton confidant, who has now confessed to straight-up lying about an extremely important matter.

"Trump Is Right About “Flipping”" (Hornberger).  The bigger the allegations, and the bigger the higher-up you can sink, the better deal you get, so the testimony of the flipper is almost worthless.

The price of get out of jail free cards in New York:  Tweet (ǝʇıɹdsʃʃǝɥ):

"Holy shit that is cheap."