by Sandy » Wed Jul 19, 2017 10:01 am
Dozens of unexplained, unreported "meetings" between Trump campaign officials and Russian intelligence agents over a two year period, with all of the "oops" moments. First Flynn didn't meet anyone from Russia. Then oops, well, he did and got fired for lying to the Veep about it. Then it was Sessions who claimed not to have met with any Russian officials in Cleveland, until there was a camera capture of him meeting with the ambassador. Then it was, "oops, forgot about that. Ok, I'll recuse myself." Then it was Manafort. "Oops. Yeah, I forgot that I worked for the Russians as a representative of theirs to our government and got over a million dollars for it." So he gets set aside as campaign manager. Then it was Conway, "Oh, yeah, I guess those two guys in that video of me in that meeting for over an hour were Russians (one of them was Kislyak), oops, I forgot that." And now there's the ongoing saga of Donald Jr. and his emails, and the inadvertent but outright admission of collusion. The evolution of the Trump administrations excuses has gone from "There were no meetings with Russians," to "OK, OK, oops. We were busy and so the eight top officials of our campaign don't remember which meetings were with Russians and which ones were with Mexicans," to another line, "OK, you caught us multiple times on camera and in emails meeting with Russians, but they weren't about the election, they were about adoption of Russian orphans," to the latest line, "OK, we colluded with them, but what's wrong with that?"
You're way out of date on this, Jon, and terribly uninformed. The line for you Trump cheerleaders now isn't "there was no collusion," it's "OK, there was collusion but there's nothing illegal or wrong with that, because anybody would take information about their political opponent and use it regardless of where it came from, right?"
There is something drastically wrong with Americans who are not horribly sickened by this.