Something people are mostly missing in the Butina indictment is that the text of her operational proposal to her handlers incriminates Republican congressional leadership as colluding with Russia. So not just the usual suspects like Kremlin BFF Dana Rohrbach. People higher up than that.

If true, this would explain a lot. For the past two years I've been wondering why GOP leadership has been so totally okay with Trump's antics and unwilling to rebuke them in any substantive way. Maybe it's because high ranking leadership is just as compromised as is Trump. Sometimes I wonder if the Mueller investigations and its increasing number of spinoffs won't ultimately bring down Pence, Ryan, McConnell, maybe others.