The Admission

Over the weekend, Donald Trump posted an admission on Twitter that his campaign had attempted to collude with Russia (details here) during the now infamous Trump Tower meeting with Kremlin operatives. With this confession, Trump effectively admits that he, his staff, and his son had lied about the meeting in the past.

Arguably Trump did not consciously make this admission or realize he had done so. Like most prolific liars, he can't keep track of his own dissembling and deceptions. The Roman rhetorician Marcus Fabius Quintilianus once famously said "a liar should have a good memory," and Trump clearly lacks that, as his many past inconsistencies have shown.

As well, there's no good reason for Trump to admit this, further suggesting it was a mistake, unless he thought he could convince people with the power of his gibberish. That further underscores his intellectual fragility and emotional instability.

There is no crime called "collusion," but it is the same thing as a criminal conspiracy, which of course is a felony. Trump's admission certainly gives more fuel to Special Counsel Robert Mueller and team charging Trump's son with a felony and naming the President as an indicted co-conspirator.

Trump undoubtedly thought he improved his legal stance with this Twitter rant, although it likely will achieve the exact opposite result. As I've said here before, Trump has repeatedly demonstrated how he's his own worst enemy.