"Can you imagine the idiotic hubris it took for any Trump official to put something incriminating in email after their email crusade against Clinton? Seriously, these people shouldn't be trusted to drive a car much less run a country." -- digby (@digby56), 2017-12-16
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They thought it was a business deal - something you don't tell people about until it's done. There was maybe some vague sense that someone might think part of it was wrong, but no actual understanding that these were crimes.
... At least, on the part of the president, and other people were just following his lead.
POTUS45 is the epitome of "never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity."
Not that he doesn't have malice, but everything we know about him says that he's lazy, selfish, and dim, not a master schemer.