If #tulsigabbard is credibly #putin aligned, then the timing of departure, as Putin faces rising challenges at home, as #iran more likely seems handled poorly, as 1.7b slush fund and ballroom unpopular, as surgeon general troubles persist, as new fed chair seems #trump crony, and as Trump attacks his own party, having made two active GOP senators his enemies (he waited with #cornyn for #Warsh ), the intelligence lens the next confirmation opens, publicly, could be brutal, and the point. #uspol