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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/trump-team-says-theres-no-collusion-to-see-hereBy ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published JULY 10, 2017 3:58 PM
Fake news. Fabricated lies. A great big nothing burger.
For months, President Donald Trump and his officials have dismissed allegations that anyone associated with his presidential campaign cooperated with Russian operatives or officials to influence the 2016 election. Blaming the mainstream media, the Democrats and the Deep State, the Trump team has cast claims of collusion as a conspiratorial effort to undermine the President and diminish his electoral victory.
Theyve stuck to this narrative as reports have emerged about Trump associates and individuals claiming ties to the campaign communicating with, or attempting to make contact with, Russian hackers; about the Presidents son-in-law trying to open up a secret line of communication with the Russian government; and about the Presidents eldest son trying to obtain damaging information about Hillary Clinton from a Kremlin-linked lawyer.
And an emerging line from the Trump administrations sympathizers is that if those contacts do amount to collusion with Russia, then collusion may not be such a bad thing after all.
Here are some recent revelations that, to hear Trumpworld tell it, amount to next to nothing.
Meeting with Kremlin-linked lawyer for dirt on Clinton
Donald Trump Jr. said Monday that he met with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian attorney with close connections to the Kremlin, in July 2016 at Trump Tower in the hopes of obtaining damaging information about Clinton.
snip - read on. Long and worthwhile
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TPM - "This Is What No Collusion Looks Like" (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Jul 2017
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Lucinda
(31,170 posts)1. TY KNR
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(40,416 posts)2. Josh Marshall has assembled quite a stable of journalists.
Allegra Kirkland is one of the top tier. There are many others, too. Josh is building TPM.
It's one of my must daily visits.