And you know who was laughing at that press conference today?
Besides Putin?
I imagine that somewhere in a warren of cubes and some actual offices in a glass and concrete building in a drab office district in Southwest Washington someone might have hooted. Another hollered. And more howled.
No, seriously. Imagine you are an employee of the Special Counsel’s Office, whether an overwhelmed document clerk or a veteran investigator of decades of mob, money and national security cases and you hear Vladimir Putin say on TV
We can meet you halfway. We can make another step. We can actually permit official representatives of the United States, including the members of this very commission, this commission headed by Mr. Mueller, we can let them into the country and they can be present at this questioning.
You know the jokes started flying immediately. “Hey, Michael, how’s the weather in Moscow?” “Sugar your own tea, Jeannie!”
If there was one bunch who could have been tipped from horror to hilarity today, it would be the workers in that nondescript office building.
At least I hope so. They could use a laugh.