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And it's all the fault of the Clinton's, Obama and the media.

 

lol

 

It's not like you've said anything original in a few years. "Something, something brown people" is your default position on any topic.

 

Just to recap, that is a senior advisor (and son) of the President releasing an e-mail himself in which he clearly accepts an offer of information from a foreign government, illegally obtained through hacking, for the purposes of furthering an election campaign. Then he lied about that meeting in order to help protect another senior advisor who lied about the meeting on his security clearance application, which is itself another serious crime.

Oh, and it's a total coincidence and *not* quid pro quo that right as all this was happening, said candidate's only major change to his party's platform was to make significant positive changes in posture toward that foreign government.

 

Isn't, "Something, something hypocrite liberals" yours?

 

Is there?

Doesn't look like the Russians even delivered on a promise of incriminating evidence.

If they had, I imagine it would have been given to the FBI and/or leaked to the press.

And there's no evidence of any quid pro quo.

Looks like the Russian lawyer used a false pretext to get a meeting to discuss sanctions. Once that became clear, the meeting wrapped up.

Where's the collision or the crime?

 

Molly McKew on Twitter

 

Within 24 hours of the existence of the email being reported, he released it.

That's a good thing.

There's nothing illegal about taking the meeting. Even you can't make that case.

And, nothing came of the meeting.

Still a nothing burger.

 

1) Taking the meeting *is* collusion, even if the goods weren't delivered (which they were, the Trump campaign and those allied with it repeatedly used information obtained through illegal Russian hacking).

2) Kushner lied about the meeting on his security clearance application, which is a felony. Trump, Jr., lied about this meeting to try to help that cover it up, making him an accessory to said felony, also a felony.

3) There *is* evidence of quid pro quo. The timing itself is evidence of quid pro quo.

 

I thought this summed it up pretty well, YF:

 

Lordy I hope there are tapes.

 

How the hell does one get a degree from high school?