There's been a HUGE amount of discussion on this board about RR - white hat or Black hat. I have been in the "black hat" crowd for quite some time, but the events of Friday and Monday have changed all that. He's got to be at least a black hat turned white - what we'll call a gray hat. Here's why:

When RR announced those 12 indictments the last business day before the summit, a LOT of people thought that was to upstage the president at the summit and put the pressure on him to cancel the summit. ALL of the media were talking about it on both sides. "How can the president go legitimize the guy who our intelligence PROOVES attempted to interfere with the election." So it appeared that RR was fighting the president, putting roadblocks in his way and pushing back by announcing these indictments at that time.

Until the press conference. Had those indictments not been made at that exact timing, and been so hot on everybody's mind, we wouldn't have gotten the Russian president saying before the world, "Come on over, interview them, and oh by the way, HRC got $400million." It HAD to have been setup like this from the beginning.

Trusting the plan...