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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Republicans Have Developed a Theory of Alt-Collusion to Defend Trump From Mueller
Having apparently decided that defending the Trump campaign against charges of collusion with Russian cyberattacks is an impossible task, the Republican Party has decided to go on offense. The House Intelligence Committee, putatively assigned to investigate collusion, is instead running a counter-investigation into Trumps nemeses. Their argument, incredibly enough, is that the FBI and Robert Mueller are the real perpetrators of collusion with Russia. No puppet, no puppet, youre the puppet has become the new Republican argument against Mueller.
Their case, which is being quickly spread by Republican officeholders and conservative media, centers on the role of Christopher Steele, a respected retired British intelligence officer turned private investigator, and Fusion GPS, the firm for which he worked. During the Republican primary, donors opposed to Trumps candidacy hired Steele to conduct opposition research into Trump. After Trump won the primary, Democrats continued to finance his investigation. Steele compiled a now-famous dossier alleging a web of corrupt ties, including blackmail, between Trump, his inner circle, and the Kremlin. The FBI took at least some steps to investigate the allegations Steele made, a natural response given the serious possibility that the Kremlin had compromised a president-elect. The questions surrounding Trumps collusion are in some sense an outgrowth of the larger question of his corrupt relationship with Russia.
The Republicans have developed a theory of alt-collusion, centering on elements of these same facts. Their version of the story uses Steeles research in Russia as evidence that Steele is a tool of the Russian government. Steeles report, charges the The Wall Street Journal editorial page, is based largely on anonymous, Kremlin-connected sources. Ergo, Strip out the middlemen, and it appears that Democrats paid for Russians to compile wild allegations about a U.S. presidential candidate. Did someone say collusion? Former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer has circulated the same bizarre theory.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/10/alt-collusion-the-gop-theory-to-defend-trump-from-mueller.html
Something is definitely up.
The Rumpers and all their masters control are going positively apeshit.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)orangecrush
(19,633 posts)But I think what we are seeing is the smokescreen being laid down for Trump to fire Mueller.
Just a gut feeling.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,125 posts)i.e. we are unable to go forward...
orangecrush
(19,633 posts)Mueller has already made provisions to leak everything to the right people if fired.
You can bet there is an insurance policy.
BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)They are painting giant targets on themselves.
orangecrush
(19,633 posts)OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)They can bullshit all they want but Mueller has the facts, and so much evidence that it will hit them like a tsunami, when he's ready. Let's not forget, Trump and his gang were completely unaware they were being recorded/investigated. We know foreign Intel had audio plus other evidence. One way or another, this will come out, because they were incredibly sloppy, and only now trying to cover up, after the fact.
orangecrush
(19,633 posts)I have to wonder how Trump ever got this far without being exposed.
OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)enemy of the US, by US traitors.