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wcfields2009 78H
909 entradas
14/7/2017 12:40 pm
At Long Last, The Smoking Russian Gun


The following is a column written by Doyle McManus, columnist for the L A Times:

The unraveling mystery of whether Donald Trump's presidential campaign colluded with Russia just produced a smoking gun: those emails from Donald Trump Jr. welcoming an offer from Moscow to supply dirt on Hillary Clinton.

This wasn't a casual meeting between the candidate's impetuous son and some random peddler of political gossip. Trump Jr. was explicitly offered "sensitive information (as) part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump." He recruited two other top aides, campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, to come along. All three were busy men; their presence suggests they considered the meeting to be of high importance.

So now we know that the Trump campaign, at its highest level, eagerly sought Russia's help.

There's still plenty we don't know, of course.

We don't know whether that initial meeting in June of 2016 led to other secret contacts. We don't know whether the Trump aides' willingness to hear an offer of clandestine help led to genuine collaboration.

In other words, we have a smoking gun -- but not a bullet and no body.

(Clinton's defeat doesn't count as evidence. She lost that election a half-dozen ways; Russian hacking was the least of them.)

And we don't know the answer to the old Watergate question: What did the president know, and when did he know it?

But there's lots of circumstantial evidence to suggest that collusion may have occurred. The Russians hacked Democratic emails and released them through WikiLeaks, according to U.S. intelligence. Candidate Trump approved the hacking publicly and urged the Russians to do more. A longtime Trump ally, Roger Stone, seemed to know in advance when the email releases were going to happen. And the releases were often cleverly timed -- just before the Democratic National Convention, for example. "It's as if the Russians were being advised by somebody who knows how a presidential campaign works," a veteran Democratic strategist told me. "Someone like Paul Manafort."

Trump's defenders will labor to put a charitable construction on what the emails revealed. It was only one meeting, they'll say. If nothing resulted, it was unseemly and improper, but little more. Besides, Trump Jr. says the Russian lawyer who attended the meeting didn't turn over any dirt. That means the meeting was an attempt at collusion that didn't pan out. It's also not clear that the lawyer was acting on behalf of the Russian government. (But Trump Jr. thought she was, and the Kremlin often uses private citizens as cutouts, to preserve deniability.)

Finally, the candidate's son and son-in-law, political neophytes, may not have known that they were potentially violating federal law against seeking campaign help from foreigners. (Manafort, a veteran of many campaigns, should have known.)

What none of those excuses undercut, however, is that Donald Trump Jr. set out to obtain "sensitive information" from someone he thought was working for the Russian government.

"If it's what you say," he wrote, "I love it especially later in the summer."

To a prosecutor, that's evidence of intent, one of the elements necessary to make a case for conspiracy.

"Conspiracy is a broad crime," Jeffery H. Smith, a former general counsel at the CIA told me Tuesday. "There is no need that the crime actually occur, only that the individuals were intending to do it and took steps to carry it out. These emails come pretty close."

Last week, Trump Jr. hired a criminal lawyer. That seems wise.

Moreover, the emails explode, yet again, the president's long string of denials that anyone in his campaign was ever in contact with Russia.

For months, Trump has denounced allegations of collusion as "a made-up story" and dismissed the FBI investigation of his campaign as a "witch hunt" -- even as his attorney general, his former national security advisor, his son-in-law and son have admitted to contacts with Russians that they once concealed.

Trump Jr. continued his family's practice of clumsy, quick-evaporating denials, first claiming that he met with the Russian lawyer to discuss adoption policy, then admitting that they discussed the campaign.

It's simply baffling why any of the president's luckless spokespersons, let alone any other self-respecting Republican, would continue to stake their honor on the Trump family's honesty.

"There is no evidence of collusion," Trump declared in May.

Now there is, at the very least, evidence of attempted collusion. The president can't claim that the investigation is a witch hunt any more. He's in new, more dangerous territory. The Trumps' own clumsiness has made it ever more likely that if they did something wrong, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III will find it.

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cruz1965 58H
99 entradas
14/7/2017 5:35 pm

Thank you for this! We have a Russian troll who posts daily love letter to Orange Hitler.


Hungr4Yungr 75H
5766 entradas
14/7/2017 5:56 pm

Yes, this is just another step on the road to impeachment for Donald Trump, United States dictator.


OnDaFence 36H/44H

14/7/2017 9:30 pm

While we're at it why not find out WHY Crooked Hillary took the MILLION$ of dollars from BOTH The Russians and the Saudis. Not one dime came from the Russian contact nor any "incriminating material" that wasn't already public knowledge about the Criminal Clintons. As for impeachment .... dream on.... Impeachment comes from the House of Representatives and is heard in the Senate. BOTH dominated by Republicans. Take off the tin foil hats and slither back into reality.


OnDaFence 36H/44H

14/7/2017 10:04 pm

Just maybe since you are retired you might be interested to know that Americans receiving Social Security benefits in 2018 can expect to see the program's largest payment increase in years, according to the trustees report released Thursday. You didn't get that under that DFN obama!!! He was too busy using the money to buy off his worthless fucking loafers in the ghetto. President Donald Trump has promised not to cut Social Security or Medicare

In January, recipients will receive a $28 monthly increase in benefits, which, although amounts to just 2.2%, is much larger than the 0.3% increase in benefits recipients collected this year. In 2016 the program offered no payout increase. The average monthly payment for the program’s 61 million beneficiaries is $1,253.


wcfields2009 replies on 15/7/2017 4:14 am:
Bret, Social Security is not controlled by the president. He

wcfields2009 replies on 15/7/2017 4:19 am:
Bret, Social Security is not controlled by the president. He has no power to increase or decrease payments. And as for Trump's promise not to cut SS or Medicare, why do you believe a man who has been proven to be a pathological liar? I didn't write the column I posted: a man with a lot more political savvy than either you or I did. And facts are facts. Quit changing the subject to Clinton. She's not under scrutiny here...the red-headed asshole is, or at least his closest people are. Admit it: this administration is the crookedest since Nixon's.

Julie_Tgirl 74T
3021 entradas
15/7/2017 11:37 pm

wcfields...You are correct on Social Security. Next year we get a raise of 2.2% and this year we only got 0.3%. But last year we did not get a raise because the Republican congress decided we didn't need one even though every thing else went up. I know this for a fact because I am retired and a SS recipient.