so trump jr releasing his emails was a leftist trick to get his dad in deep doodoo?
?? He released his email on requests from others.
I was being sarcastic. The emails dont look good. I dont understand why you say its a trick when his own son released the emails this morning.
What doesnt look good about the emails?
Someone said they have dirt on Hillary and Trump was running a campaign against her, so who cares where the info came from? If it came from France or Canada, would it make a difference? Lets assume it didnt come from a mere civilian... who cares if a foreign government gave them damaging info? Getting information isnt illegal. Every campaign does it. Its source is irrelevant.
Lets assume it didnt come from a mere civilian... who cares if a foreign government gave them damaging info? Getting information isnt illegal. Every campaign does it. Its source is irrelevant.
Okay. If we take a giant step back and take a deep breath.....
Does it matter? Legally, maybe not. This is where it does matter:
The Trump campaign and administration had a lot of contact with Russian government officials that they conveniently "forgot" about. Trump himself had a curiously positive attitude toward Putin that Trump just doubled down on as the months progressed. It was ascertained that Russia had hacked the DNC and the DNC party chairman and then released them to Wikileaks. They were obviously out to "help" Trump.
People got curious, and suspicious. It didn't help that the Democrats lost. They went into full down meltdown and screamed for blood. But the fact remained it seemed kind of odd. Flynn was fired less than a month in, for lying about his involvement with the Russians to Pence. Trump fired Comey and told the Russians the next day that it had "solved a problem" for him. So an investigation was called for. Comey testified that Trump wanted him to "let the Flynn matter go."
People have been giving Trump the benefit of the doubt. Naive. No idea what was going on. Maybe Russia was just making approaches and no one knew, no one did anything wrong. Enter Donald Trump Jr.'s emails today. He himself supplied us with the information that he eagerly set up a meeting to get dirt on Hillary Clinton from the "highest levels" of the Russian government. It puts all the information I just laid out in a somewhat less innocent light, doesn't it? The campaign was ready, willing and able to take the dirt from Russia. This meeting was no doubt a "test" by Russia's spies to see how they would react, if they would take the bait. They didn't actually have anything to share. But they got the answer they wanted. Yes, the Trumps would play ball.
And everything that has happened since is now in a different light because of it. Doesn't really matter if it was illegal. Russia fucked with our election and Trump's team may have been an active player in it. It isn't that Russia gave us information; it is that they were interfering with our election and Trump didn't care. Or Jr., Kushner and Manafort didn't. Trump may still try to weasel out of responsibility by saying he didn't know.
