To understand the latest on the Trump administration and Russia, let's start with a language lesson. Not Russian: English. The word of the day is "fulsome."
Some people use "fulsome" as a five dollar way of saying "really, really full."
Every once in a while, you'll hear a politician promising "a fulsome inquiry," unaware of how the word is designed not to bolster sincerity, but to undercut it.
As the character of Inigo Montoya puts it in the movie The Princess Bride: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."...
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