Republicans counting the seconds until this thing of Helsinki blows on

Monday Afternoon, Donald Trump put on an exhibition in Helsinki that was so Gringworthy and shocking that the best representatives of the White House defense could to find, it is that he is basically dead of brain. On Tuesday, with the fallout of Vladimir Putin's public takeover of his own intelligence agencies still fast and furious, the president held a press conference in which he asserted that he meant the opposite of the thing he had said yesterday (and regularly tweets). "The sentence should have been" I see no reason why it would not be Russia ", a kind of double negative," he said. "So you can put this in and I think that probably clarifies things pretty well by itself." The reversal is unlikely to satisfy his critics, considering that he included the warning that the "interference" could be of other people as well. Many people there "(as well as the 39; compulsory " no collusion! "). But will he appease people who are really able to restrain his power over trade, or will he thwart his Putin cult by increasing, say, the economic pressure on Russia? The jury is still in the running, but before his flip-flop, they certainly had a lot to say!

"It imposes the Americans, it repels our allies," said an angry Senator Bob Corker, sponsored a Senate resolution introduced last week that would require Trump to obtain congressional approval for rates imposed for reasons of national security. "When he does that, he reinforces Putin, so for me, the very first step that would benefit the Americans would be that we firmly adopt this tariff legislation and take back these authorities." (Until now, Mr. Corker could not vote on his bill, although considering Republican lawmakers responded to the door of Helsinki with words like "shameful", "shameful", "weird" and "fake dish" Corker may later receive support!) Separately, Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch went to the Senate to announce that he, too, would support legislation Tariff if Trump continued to threaten to intensify his trade war. "If the administration continues to move forward with its reckless and reckless confidence on tariffs, I will work to advance trade legislation. to reduce the "Presidential trade authority," said Hatch. Elsewhere, Corker and Senator Susan Collins indicated that they were interested in an idea proposed by Senators Marco Rubio and Chris Va Hollen to strike the Russia's banking and energy sectors if the director of national intelligence Dan Coats, Trump deputy publicly mined Monday, says that Russia is ready to intervene in future elections. "This would certainly send a very strong message to the Russians, which is necessary to counter what the President said yesterday," Collins said, adding that she was still "surprised" by Trump's remarks. [19659021]] sound good and angry and as they have the good sense to use Monday's show as motivation to finally do something about the imbalanced, potentially compromised man at the White House . But, in reality, the chances that they actually do it are somewhere between Trump revealing his romantic side to Melania on their next birthday, and bluntly admitting that the pee band is real. Republicans have made a cottage industry by publicly shading things that Trump has done – whether by disclosing classified information to Russian envoys, siding with the Nazis, or destroying our alliances abroad – and emphasizing the fact. (That's practically Jeff Flake's full-time job at this point.) And the huffy words apart, they're probably not going to stop now.