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Trump, for his part, sent out a powerful and of course completely believable tweet that there was no collusion. He even put it in caps so we can understand the forcefulness of his message. Nice to see a grown man operate in such a dignified way, no?
And this doesn't even consider Jeff Sessions faulty memory about his meetings with Russia or Trump's adoption of policies favorable to Russia.
Are you able to suspend your disbelief?
(Oh and BB - cuz I know you have the self control of a gnat - Vox gets high grades for factual reporting. Dismiss them all you like. They stick to the facts. Unlike you.
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Two things are true about the indictments unsealed by special counsel Bob Mueller Monday:
- They don’t provide a “smoking gun” proving collusion between Donald Trump’s operation and Russia.
- They make it almost impossible to believe that there wasn’t collusion between Trump’s operation and Russia.
Here is what we now know: The Trump campaign was filled with operatives connected in shady ways to the Russian government. It included individuals who knew that the Russians had obtained Clinton-related emails and who lied about that knowledge to federal investigators. Top campaign officials (and Trump family members) dropped everything to meet with Russian operatives when they believed there was useful opposition research on offer. Trump publicly asked Russia to hack into Clinton’s computers to find and release her missing emails.
We also know the Russians really did hack into John Podesta’s and the DNC’s email accounts and found and released emails that damaged Clinton. They really did conduct social media operations designed help Trump. Both their targets and their timing were extremely sophisticated for a foreign government that has traditionally shown itself to have a poor understanding of American politics. After winning the White House, Trump attacked the CIA and fired the director of the FBI in an effort to discredit or end their investigations into Russia’s role in the election.
At this point, it would be a truly remarkable coincidence if two entities that had so many ties to each other, that had so much information about what the other was doing, and that were working so hard toward the same goal never found a way to coordinate.
Trump, for his part, sent out a powerful and of course completely believable tweet that there was no collusion. He even put it in caps so we can understand the forcefulness of his message. Nice to see a grown man operate in such a dignified way, no?
- Russia stole Democratic emails.
- At least one Trump adviser knew of the theft in advance, and lied about it.
- Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager, was a paid operative of a Russia-linked political party in Ukraine.
- In June 2016, Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort met with a Russian operative who promised them dirt on Clinton.
- In July 2016, Trump publicly asked the Russian government to find and release other emails Clinton deleted.
- Russians released emails to help Trump, planted fake news and social media bots to help Trump, and tried to hack election systems in 21 states.
- After being elected president, Donald Trump fired the director of the FBI to end his investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election.
And this doesn't even consider Jeff Sessions faulty memory about his meetings with Russia or Trump's adoption of policies favorable to Russia.
Are you able to suspend your disbelief?
(Oh and BB - cuz I know you have the self control of a gnat - Vox gets high grades for factual reporting. Dismiss them all you like. They stick to the facts. Unlike you.