Edgar Allen Poe's The Purloined Letter, a classic of early mystery fiction, can serve as a commentary on the Trump Administration's take-no-prisoners mindset.
Rudy Giuliani is no C. Auguste Dupin. It's unlikely Giuliani could detect his way out of a paper bag. So his announcement that he'll travel to Kiev to lean on Ukraine to deliver dirt to be used against Joe Biden in 2020 shouldn't surprise anyone. Appall? Yes. Surprise? No. Like Poe, Rudy notes that misdeeds committed in plain sight may be overlooked.
Neither should Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Sochi, Russia this coming Tuesday be dismissed lightly. One can't help but wonder if Pompeo's meeting with Vlad, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, will indeed, as ballyhooed by a State Department press release, discuss a full range of bilateral and multilateral
challenges . More specifically, will that range include telling Putin to keep his mitts off the 2020 election?
As would Dupin, we see through these most recent instances of Trump foggery.
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