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Trump let the Kremlin WRITE his foreign policy as he was NEGOTIATING a business deal with the Kremlin, and did so though he KNEW Russia was committing crimes against America. Anyone who says that's not collusion can be ignored; anyone asking for proof can read PROOF OF COLLUSION.
1/ Trump's foreign policy's authors: Paul Manafort, Russian agent in debt at least $17 million to one of Putin's "2 or 3" top allies; Richard Burt, lobbyist for a Kremlin-owned gas company; George Papadopoulos, self-described Kremlin intermediary; Dimitri Simes, Putin's "friend."
2/ At the time these men wrote Trump's foreign policy, his personal lawyer (Michael Cohen) and business partner (Felix Sater) were in ACTIVE ("hot" negotiations with the Kremlin (via its spokesman, Dmitry Peskov) to build a Trump Tower Moscow with Russian oligarch Sergey Rozov.
3/ PRIOR to his announcement of his foreign policy (or shortly thereafter, and without ANY alteration by Trump of that policy but, rather, a doubling down) Trump was told by some combination of PAPADOPOULOS, CLOVIS, LEWANDOWSKI, and MASHBURN that Putin had stolen Clinton emails.
4/ Once Trump was told Russia was committing crimes and seeking to aid his campaign in doing so he had a DUTY under federal lawAiding and Abettingto take NO ACTION to unilaterally benefit the Kremlin. The foreign policy the Kremlin wrote for Trump was such a unilateral benefit.
5/ Once Trump was FORMALLY INFORMED by CIA and FBI brieferson August 17, 2016that Russia was seeking to infiltrate his campaign, he had a DUTY to answer TRUTHFULLY the briefers' questions about whether he had any information on Russian infiltration efforts. He clearly did NOT.
CONCLUSION/ Now you know what "collusion" looks like in real terms. Legally it means many charges of Conspiracy and Aiding and Abetting for Russian crimes, as well as bribery charges. But to be clear, this is only ONE collusive storyline in the Trump-Russia probe. There are MANY.
PS/ The MONEY LAUNDERING is where it really gets funand multinational. THOSE facts and they're indeed factsinvolve Kushner, Qatari lenders, the Saudi blockade of Qatar, Emirati nuclear ambitions, and Russian support for Iranian mercs in Syria. It's a barnburner and no mistake.
PS2/ The COLLUSION MEETING is also fun. Did you know Trump Jr. met in August 2016 with Erik Prince (who perjured himself about this meeting) and George Nader (now cooperating with Mueller, but at the time representing the Saudis and Emiratis) and accepted an offer of foreign aid?
PS3/ Did you know that Trump AND the TOP BRASS of the Trump campaign ALL BELIEVED the Russians had Clinton's emails the whole time Trump was AIDING AND ABETTING the Russian cover-up by sayingin speeches, televised debates, and interviewsRussia wasn't involved in any such theft?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)As Seth pointed out to day , many people realized months ago, even last year, that the Russians stole the election.
But..and this is me talking, I realized not that long ago that the effort and time it would take to PROVE that, in the face of the resistance we have already seen, would keep him/them in power past teh mid-terms.
So Mueller et al is doing the next best thing..prosecuting the crimes ti took to accomplish the election theft.
but I am hearing more often now people starting to say the election was stolen. It's a fact that is slowly seeping in to mainstream consciousness.and is thanks to independent investigators like Seth, and many others, that we have come this far in understanding that bigger picture.
BTW..I am reading Rick Wilson's now...very well written.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Important concept.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Wonder how much of these kind of things get read around investigator circles?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)sick, immoral republican bastards will be damned in history for their sell out