Gassley, Comer and Jordan should be investigated prosecuted as russian spies.

FTFY

"These groups gave jet fuel to misinformation at a crucial time in the pandemic," Arthur Caplan, head of the division of medical ethics at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, said. "The richer they get, the worse off the public is because, indisputably, they're spouting dangerous nonsense that kills people."

The influx of pandemic cash sent executive compensation soaring, boosted public outreach, and seeded the ability to wage legislative and legal battles to weaken vaccine requirements and defend physicians accused of spreading misinformation.

"These groups gave jet fuel to misinformation at a crucial time in the pandemic," Caplan said. "The richer they get, the worse off the public is because, indisputably, they're spouting dangerous nonsense that kills people."

Some doctors following guidance by Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance or America's Frontline Doctors have been disciplined or face the possibility of discipline from state medical boards alleging substandard medical care. In cases involving two doctors alleged to have followed Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance guidance, three patients died.

Public health experts, including Caplan, worry that the well-funded anti-science movement could lead to devastating long-term public health consequences if childhood diseases once vanquished by vaccines come roaring back.

At this point, it's clear what House Republicans should say. Members such as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer could begin by apologizing for their role in this debacle. They could then announce that they've decided to wrap up their pointless and evidence-free impeachment crusade, recommitting themselves to a more constructive, reality-based approach to governing.

The GOP members could conclude by issuing a plea to federal prosecutors, asking that they not launch an investigation into Republicans' reliance on lies from foreign intelligence services.

Alas, that's decidedly not what the impeachment crusaders had to say after their case collapsed.

Goldman added that the evidence now suggests that Republicans "are willing to be used as assets of Russian intelligence," concluding that "the real danger" in Congress is members "operating at the behest of Russian intelligence and Vladimir Putin."

Looks like it's time to investigate the investigators again - this time with the Trump-chosen prosecutor and House Republicans getting the treatment instead.

The implications of this Russian operation are staggering, especially for the willing Republicans and right-wing media stooges who were the useful idiots propagating the disinformation for years. The James Comers, Chuck Grassleys, Jim Jordans of the world have been trafficking in this stuff as the purported basis for a Biden impeachment, which is itself tightly yoked to Trump's campaign for re-election. Right-wing outlets, most notably Fox News, have been amplifying the claims not dozens or hundreds but thousands of times over the past several months.

It has dominated right-wing media, become an accepted "fact" among MAGA adherents, and allowed elected Republicans to play mainstream media like a cheap fiddle.

We're nearly a decade into Putin's sustained, unrelenting attack on American democracy through misinformation and mischief. Among other things, the Republican Party and its standard bearer have been successfully enmeshed in it and thoroughly compromised. When this all began, Putin in his wildest imagination could not have conceived of this level of success.

Calling MAGAts Putin sympathizers doesn't begin to scratch the surface of their willing complicity in placing Russia's interests over those of the American people. It's past time to shine the light of truth on all the Republicans and insurrectionists blindly denying Russia's non-stop role in subverting our democracy and destabilizing the globe by allowing Russia treachery to go insufficiently answered.

Because Trump keeps a firehose of outrages gushing each and everyday, sometimes many fail to see the breadth and depth of his career-long wealth grift based mainly on lies and fraud. The very conscious acknowledgement of someone having been found guilty of illegally running a fraudulent school, a fraudulent charity, and for using fraudulent valuations as a continuous business practice shouldn't be followed by the thought - "Let's elect THIS GUY President of the United States."

Maybe the absolute worst thing about Trump's political legacy is the reality that in 2024 America a large portion of our society actually believes that this life-long walking, talking crime spree is the person they think most qualified to be in the White House.

How in hell do we ever recover from that?

It's worth appreciating the fact that it takes a special kind of person to get caught overseeing a fraudulent charity, a fraudulent "university," and a business that repeatedly committed fraud.

But some see him as a messenger sent from above.

If Trump is indeed delivering a message, you can count on a couple of things: 1) There's a high chance that anything he says or does is illegal, unethical, immoral, or just plain idiotic; 2) It has to benefit Trump personally in some way.