Russia is the Keyser Soze of American Politics

The news that a former campaign manager of a sitting president has been indicted would seem like a pretty big deal.

Paul Manafort has finally been charged with exactly the sorts of crimes one would expect for a self-declared “influence peddler” and corrupt political hack: Money laundering, failing to register as a foreign agent, general political scumbaggery, etc. It’s hard to dismiss a crime allegedly involving $75 million as small potatoes, but interestingly that has been the tone of the media coverage. The only interest the press and Democratic partisans appear to have in Manafort’s crimes is whether special counsel Robert Mueller can use them flip him and finally uncover the realcrime:

Donald Trump’s presidency!

Fox News is the exception, sort of. They’ve relegated the story of Manafort’s indictment to the “and in other news” segment, just after “Elderly veteran trains dogs to bark national anthem during NFL broadcasts.” But that’s only to make time for more of their obsessive coverage of the Uranium One deal, and revelations that Russia-linked Fusion GPS was paid by the Clinton campaign and the DNC for the now-infamous dossier dirt-dump on Donald Trump.

The burning question on the Right: “What did Hillary know, and who did she have killed to keep it a secret?”