You know, last week I role-played POTUS for @GovHowardDean's foreign policy class (as myself, not Trump): The NSC was briefing me on a real-time foreign interference as the election was proceeding. One of the first calls I made was to make sure that all contact with governors 1/ https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1324189057598054400

took place through an intermediary (either the AG or DNI) in order to avoid any perception that I was in any way interfering with counting of votes and thereby the perception of a fair outcome. The fact that Trump's calls to governors -- which we know is to EXERT PRESSURE -- 2/

registered barely as a blip today...just another thing that Trump was expected to do...tells us how far we have sunk in our expectations of the presidency. Those calls are in themselves inappropriate and constitute interference. Hope it gets covered as such when this is all over.