Seven legal theories on Russiagate

[JimH52]

Seven Theories of the Case: What Do We Really Know about L’Affaire Russe and What Could it All Mean?

It is pretty certain that the only possibilities still viable are numbers 3 through 7,

How much damage will the Comrade do before Mueller brings down the heat? I hope they have some small handcuffs for his tiny hands.

 

[Zorro!]

Seven Theories of the Case: What Do We Really Know about L’Affaire Russe and What Could it All Mean?

It is pretty certain that the only possibilities still viable are numbers 3 through 7,

How much damage will the Comrade do before Mueller brings down the heat? I hope they have some small handcuffs for his tiny hands.

Well, those claims didn't age well at all.

The Press Will Learn Nothing From the Russiagate Fiasco: The inability to face the enormity of the last few years of errors will cost the news media its credibility, even with blue-state audiences.

You know what was fake news? Most of the Russiagate story. There was no Trump-Russia conspiracy, that thing we just spent three years chasing. The Mueller Report is crystal clear on this.

He didn’t just “fail to establish” evidence of crime. His report is full of incredibly damning passages, like one about Russian officialdom’s efforts to reach the Trump campaign after the election: “They appeared not to have preexisting contacts and struggled to connect with senior officials around the President-Elect.”

Not only was there no “collusion,” the two camps didn’t even have each others’ phone numbers!

In March of 2017, in one of the first of what would become a mountain of mafia-hierarchy-style “Trump-Russia contacts” graphics in major newspapers, the Washington Post described an email Trump lawyer Michael Cohen sent to Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov. They called it “the most direct interaction yet of a top Trump aide and a senior member of Putin’s government.”

The report shows the whole episode was a joke. In order to further the Trump Tower project-that-never-was, Cohen literally cold-emailed the Kremlin. More than that, he entered the email incorrectly, so the letter initially didn’t even arrive. When he finally fixed the mistake, Peskov didn’t answer back.

That was “the most direct interaction yet of a top Trump aide and a senior member of Putin’s government”!​

But it generated clicks and viewers and made them feel like bold warriors against the bad orange man.