My somewhat tin foil hat look at Russian collusion.
This is what I think Mueller found and may have or may not have put in his report.
Trump was, if nothing else, a willing dupe in all things Russia.
He may or may not have helped orchestrate Russian interference.
However, even if Mueller could prove collusion/conspiracy, he (and others like Barr and Rosenstein) didn’t think the country could handle that information.
Also, these same people did not want other nations such as China and North Korea to know that our country was so easily compromised as to elect a Russian asset/Manchurian candidate.
Instead, let everyone believe that Trump just wittingly or unwittingly accepted Russian help.
So, it’s better to let Trump be known as stupid and/or naive rather than treasonous.
Let people think that Trump was just greedy in his dealings with Russia.
Let people think that Trump just has man crushes on strong dictators like Putin as a character flaw but not as any kind of alliance.
Let people think that all of the people in and around Trumps campaign were just rogue actors in their dealings with Russia with merely greedy personal motives but no coordinated campaign goals.
There are so many things that they need to explain away to dispel any coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, oligarchs, private citizens.
So, instead of doing so, they just go in a different direction.
Trump and his campaign did a lot of bad things, wrong things, unethical things, inappropriate things, errors and lies of omission, but they didn’t do enough illegal things that led directly back to Trump to qualify as collusion or conspiracy or coordination of the Russians efforts.
That’s the way I see them playing this.
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