THE LONG VIEW: TRUMP’S YES MEN IN CONGRESS

NO OVERSIGHT

Government Ethics Office questions Trump’s refusal to divest from his business, so House Oversight chair Jason Chaffetz threatens to investigate Ethics Office.

LYIN’ LIKE FLYNN

Michael Flynn is caught lying about his contacts with Russia, so House Intel chair Devin Nunes wants to investigate the FBI for monitoring Russia.

REQUEST DENIED

Rep. Kevin Brady decries Democrats’ efforts to “intimidate, harass and destroy their political enemies” because they requested Trump’s tax returns.

MIDNIGHT RUN

Nunes announces his intention to brief the White House on classified documents — leaked to him by the White House — but he doesn’t brief the Intel committee.

UNITE THE RIGHT

Trump’s “heart is in the right place,” House Speaker Paul Ryan says after the president calls white supremacists marching in Charlottesville “very fine people.”

LOCK HER UP!

The first indictment of the special counsel’s Russia probe is announced, so congressional Republicans announce their own investigations — into Hillary Clinton.

THE BOTTOM LINE

After several failures, the Republicancontrolled Congress finally passes a major legislation: a hugely unpopular corporate tax cut. Sen. Orrin Hatch says Trump could be the “greatest president ever” and Ryan talks of “exquisite presidential leadership.”

MISSED THE MEMO

Nunes uses cherry-picked data in a memo accusing the FBI of cherry-picking data to trick a court into approving a warrant on Trump adviser Carter Page.

WITCH HUNT!

GOP Reps. Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan, frustrated that Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein won’t share details about the Mueller investigation, move to impeach the Trump appointee for “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

HUSH MONEY

The president is directly implicated in a criminal conspiracy to influence an election. “I don’t have any observations about that,” says Mitch McConnell.

FLIP-FLOP

Lindsey Graham, who in 2015 called Trump “the Islamic State’s man of the year,” says Trump has done “a hell of a job destroying the caliphate.”

DEEP STATE

Graham vows to investigate whether the DOJ and FBI had plotted ”an administrative coup” to remove Trump from the presidency.

BUT HE HAS A BLACK FRIEND

Meadows defends Trump against accusations of racism with Exhibit A: Lynne Patton. Patton is a HUD official and, Meadows explains, also black.

HARD LESSON

In lack of a defense for Trump, Republicans attack Michael Cohen. “I did the same thing that you’re doing now,” Cohen warns. “I protected Mr. Trump for 10 years.”