The latest talking point from the White House is that collusion is not a crime. They’re preparing for what they know is coming. I expect in a couple weeks for the new orders to Faux and other conservative MSM sources to be to start arguing that treason is okay if committed by the President. Then worse and worse as it snowballs.
Rudy Giuliani says 'collusion is not a crime' – after months of Trump denying he colluded with the Russians
Actual legal experts have been saying this from the beginning you moron. They said even if you could prove they talked to the Russians it does' matter....and you still can't show they had any ties to Russia...Hilary did, Trump didn't.
Keep preparing..you guys will be the lone Japanese soldier waiting for the island to be invaded.
We’re showing all kinds of ties to Russia. Have you been asleep? Are you glued to your conspiracy sites all day? Are you really THAT out of touch with the news?!
Really?
The only collusion in the 2016 election was between Donald John Trump and voters in 30 states.
Democrats manufactured the Russian Collusion excuse after he beat them, their crone candidate, their billionaire donors, and their sycophants in the media.
For two years, Democrats promised the Mueller Report would bring him down.
But it didn't. Mueller could not find a smidgen of collusion.
This presents a problem for next year because Democrats promised their base they would impeach the Orange Man. They didn't. In the eyes of their base, they are failures and cowards.
To the rest of us, Democrats are fools who fell a hoax.
Stephen F. Cohen, a professor emeritus of Russian studies and politics at New York University and Princeton, is among the Democrats who understand the damage this false accusation did to the party.
In a commentary at The Nation, Cohen said we must kill the beast.
He wrote,
"One way to end Russiagate might be to discover how it actually began. Considering what we have learned, or been told, since the allegations became public nearly three years ago, in mid-2016, there seem to be at least three hypothetical possibilities."
The first scenario -- let us call it Mama Bear -- is that this was legitimate.
But Cohen says that explanation is too soft.
He wrote,
"Many foreigners seek contacts with US presidential campaigns and have done so for decades. In this case, we do not know, for the sake of comparison, how many such foreigners had or sought contacts with the rival Clinton campaign, directly or through the Clinton Foundation, in 2016. (Certainly, there were quite a few contacts with anti-Trump Ukrainians, for example.) If the number was roughly comparable, why didn’t US intelligence initiate a counterintelligence investigation of the Clinton campaign?"
The second scenario is Papa Bear.
Cohen said that explanation is too hard.
He wrote,
"The second explanation — currently, and oddly, favored by non-comprehending pro-Trump commentators at Fox News and elsewhere — is that Putin’s Kremlin pumped anti-Trump disinformation into the American media, primarily through what became known as the Steele Dossier.
"As I pointed out nearly a year and a half ago, this makes no sense factually or logically. Nothing in the dossier suggests that any of its contents necessarily came from high-level Kremlin sources, as Steele claimed. Moreover, if Kremlin leader Putin so favored Trump, as a Russiagate premise insists, is it really plausible that underlings in the Kremlin would have risked Putin’s ire by furnishing Steele with anti-Trump information?"
Which leads of course to Baby Bear.
Cohen wrote,
"The third possible explanation — one I have termed Intelgate, and that I explore in my recent book War With Russia?: From Putin an Ukraine to Trump and Russiagate — is that US intelligence agencies undertook an operation to damage, if not destroy, first the candidacy and then the presidency of Donald Trump. More evidence of Intelgate has since appeared."
Bingo. That's just right.
Someone's been sleeping in our NSA, and there he is!
Professor Cohen said he supports Bill Barr's decision to investigate the FBI people who did this. Cohen would extend this to the media.
Cohen wrote,
"We are left, then, with this paradox, formulated in a tweet on May 24 by the British journalist John O’Sullivan: 'Spygate is the first American scandal in which the government wants the facts published transparently but the media want to cover them up.'"
The first that we know of.
Don Surber: Democrats stuck with Russiagate
