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Collusion?

yes 116 50.43%
 
no 22 9.57%
 
too early to tell? 35 15.22%
 
fake news 57 24.78%
 
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Mystro-Sama said:
The story was just put out there and it has already been dismantled. Fucking pathetic. This is why no one trusts the media nowadays.

Donald Drumpf Jr. revealed an email chain that verified just about every single detail that the times reported on and contradicted none of it.



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JWeinCom said:
Mystro-Sama said:
The story was just put out there and it has already been dismantled. Fucking pathetic. This is why no one trusts the media nowadays.

Donald Drumpf Jr. revealed an email chain that verified just about every single detail that the times reported on and contradicted none of it.

Apparently some people don't even bother to listen to the Trump team's response anymore.  They have responded with something—words have left his mouth—therefore the accusation was totally groundless and everyone has been absolutely vindicated. 



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specialk said:
Mystro-Sama said:
The story was just put out there and it has already been dismantled. Fucking pathetic. This is why no one trusts the media nowadays.

uh.. no?

It's a nothing burger in terms of nothing criminal happened and trump can't be impeached on this. It's just $$$ for liberal networks because it's cat-nip for the foil hat wearing lefties. *shrugs



Aeolus451 said:
specialk said:

uh.. no?

It's a nothing burger in terms of nothing criminal happened and trump can't be impeached on this. It's just $$$ for liberal networks because it's cat-nip for the foil hat wearing lefties. *shrugs

Trump can't get impeached but Trump Jr. might have violated some laws.  He already hired a top notch lawyer so lets see how much money gets wasted in the courts over him trying to save his ass. 



Final-Fan said:
JWeinCom said:

Donald Drumpf Jr. revealed an email chain that verified just about every single detail that the times reported on and contradicted none of it.

Apparently some people don't even bother to listen to the Trump team's response anymore.  They have responded with something—words have left his mouth—therefore the accusation was totally groundless and everyone has been absolutely vindicated. 

It's all fake news man....



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sethnintendo said:
Aeolus451 said:

It's a nothing burger in terms of nothing criminal happened and trump can't be impeached on this. It's just $$$ for liberal networks because it's cat-nip for the foil hat wearing lefties. *shrugs

Trump can't get impeached but Trump Jr. might have violated some laws.  He already hired a top notch lawyer so lets see how much money gets wasted in the courts over him trying to save his ass. 

Just meeting someone for possible dirt on hillary and not exchanging any information is not violation of any laws. 



Aeolus451 said:
sethnintendo said:

Trump can't get impeached but Trump Jr. might have violated some laws.  He already hired a top notch lawyer so lets see how much money gets wasted in the courts over him trying to save his ass. 

Just meeting someone for possible dirt on hillary and not exchanging any information is not violation of any laws. 

The act of just showing up can be, if you know its a foregin agent, who supports your candidate, and wants to hurt another.

Your showing up to potentially help a foregin power, influence things, they shouldnt.

 

Donald Trump Jr, and the 2 others that showed up, could face jailtime for treason.



JRPGfan said:
Aeolus451 said:

Just meeting someone for possible dirt on hillary and not exchanging any information is not violation of any laws. 

The act of just showing up can be, if you know its a foregin agent, who supports your candidate, and wants to hurt another.

Your showing up to potentially help a foregin power, influence things, they shouldnt.

 

Donald Trump Jr, and the 2 others that showed up, could face jailtime for treason.

That's silly. It's a stretch by a mile. No information was exchanged. Also the meeting was for information about something hillary criminally done. I doubt anything will come of this tin foil crap expect for headlines. 



My favourite part about this whole ridiculous story is this:

"The woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Mrs. Clinton."

(Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/us/politics/trump-russia-kushner-manafort.html)

So there are two possibilities:

1. The informations that Veselnitskaya tried to offer to the Trump team were correct.
That would mean that russians did indeed try to influence the POTUS election - but unlike what's usually claimed, they did not support Trump, but Clinton! And Trump would not have won because of, but despite russian interference.

2. The informations that Veselnitskaya tried to offer to the Trump team were bullshit.
In that case, there are again two possibilities:

2a. Veselnitskaya was acting on behalf of the Kremlin
That would mean that the Kremlin intentionally tried to provide the Trump team with false informations. If the Trump team had believed and spread that information, believing it to shed a negative light on Clinton, that could have been easily debunked as being false informations - in which case the damage would be with Trump, not Clinton.

2b. Veselnitskaya was NOT acting on behalf of the Kremlin
That would mean that there was no link to the Kremlin in this story, and the whole story is ultimately just another "big nothing burger".



ArnoldRimmer said:

My favourite part about this whole ridiculous story is this:

"The woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Mrs. Clinton."

(Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/us/politics/trump-russia-kushner-manafort.html)

So there are two possibilities:

1. The informations that Veselnitskaya tried to offer to the Trump team were correct.
That would mean that russians did indeed try to influence the POTUS election - but unlike what's usually claimed, they did not support Trump, but Clinton! And Trump would not have won because of, but despite russian interference.

1a. They donated money to Clinton, so they could lateron hand it over to Trump, and go "use this, proof we gave money to hilary", and then win the election. Make use of our badguy image (in american eyes) and make Hilary look bad, while in reality "our" guy (trump) wins the election (and no one knows it). In return, when your father is president, make sure to lift some trade sanctions against us.  (quid pro quo)

2. The informations that Veselnitskaya tried to offer to the Trump team were bullshit.
In that case, there are again two possibilities:

2a. Veselnitskaya was acting on behalf of the Kremlin
That would mean that the Kremlin intentionally tried to provide the Trump team with false informations. If the Trump team had believed and spread that information, believing it to shed a negative light on Clinton, that could have been easily debunked as being false informations - in which case the damage would be with Trump, not Clinton.

2b. Veselnitskaya was NOT acting on behalf of the Kremlin
That would mean that there was no link to the Kremlin in this story, and the whole story is ultimately just another "big nothing burger".

added a 1a.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-russia-criminal-probe-paul-manafort-campaign-links-a7771386.html

Donald Trump 'tried to roll back Russia sanctions the moment he got into power'

“There was serious consideration by the White House to unilaterally rescind the sanctions,” Dan Fried, who was serving as chief US coordinator for sanctions policy until he retired in late February, told Yahoo News. He said that he began receiving “panicky” phone calls from staffers in the State Department pleading with him to block Mr Trump’s efforts.