I just had another one of my "epiphanies."
OK, go ahead. Snicker. Imagine whatever "face" you would like me to see, if this were face-to-face.The media's questions about "All Things Russia"
and about Mike Flynn
and Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort and email server hacks and voter registration database hacks
and the firing of former FBI Director James Comey
and whether there are tape recordings of any of the President's conversations with James Comey
and whether or not the President himself is under investigation for obstruction of justice or anything else and anything
and everything that links back to the House and Senate investigations and the DOJ Special Counsel (Mueller) investigation . . .
The President and his entourage are getting bombarded with these kinds of questions wherever and whenever they are in shouting distance (or closer) to reporters. If Sean Spicer has one of his Whiite House Press Room briefings, he gets these questions. If the President is hosting a foreign leader---say the president of Panama-- and President Trump and the president of Panama appear side by side to take a few questions from the media, they throw these kinds of questions at the President Trump, regardless of whatever topics would be in the realm of the U.S.-to-Panama international relationship.
I think the White House should set aside one day of the week--I think Thursday would be good, or maybe Friday--and call it "Russia Thursday" or "Russia Friday."Encourage the reporters to save all of these kinds of questions and not try to ask them during other events and then give the reporters an hour long "shot" to ask these questions every Thursday or Friday. Sean Spicer. Or the President himself--maybe for the inauguration of it, to really kick it off. "At today's Russia Friday, Jared Kushner will be up at the front of the room and ready to take your Russia-related questions."
The reporters could pass around an envelope and collect a little moolah and they could have Russia-themed snacks and refreshments. Some crackers, cream cheese and caviar. Some borscht. Some vodka--
maybe not. Nix on the vodka. At least for the very first one.
Sean Spicer shows up in one of those distinctly Russian-style fur caps, or something that looks "Cossack"... just trying to think out of the box. Maybe an old USSR-style military uniform with the hammer-and-sickle designs on it. Maybe he's wearing dark sunglasses and a suit and trying to look like a "spy." A "gag" pen that takes photographs of documents... the possibilities are almost endless.
That's what I'd do.[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 06-20-2017).]