before, for years now. much of donald trump's habitual wrongdoing is not out in the open. in fact, we just saw a another example of that today, when trump called on russian president by vladimir putin, whose army he's marauding through the ukraine, killing ukrainians citizens by the thousands, calling on that man, viewed, rightly right now, as kind of a global villain. to do him a solid and and release dirt about his political opponent sons. today, he did that. hey vladimir, if you're not too busy, hook me up. the brazenness of donald trump's wrongdoing, along with the fact that he has no sense of writer, wrong deeply in his marrow. has actually perversely protected him. when he does something awful, his defenders have been able to say, look, he can't mean any harm, he's doing an openly. he doesn't hide anything, he doesn't even realize it's wrong. he really thought his phone