I must point this out about the Trump(R) campaign collusion with the Russians:

[Squinch]

Trump(R) Jr. was lured to the meeting with the promise of dirt on Hillary.

BUT...

THERE NEVER WAS ANY DIRT ON HILLARY!

Once again, as always, there is total belief by a right-winger that there will be some juicy and terrible story about Hillary, and once again, as always, she is clean. In all of these years, through all of this persecution, she has ALWAYS been clean.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. To date not one actual scandal on either Hillary or Barack, not one.

[Squinch]

2. I really think the two of them must be the cleanest politicians of our generation.

And we ended up with the asshole in the office.

[still_one]

3. More important Squelch, it irrefutably demonstrates the Russians were trying to interfere with the

U.S. election, and that there was definitely collusion with the trump campaign and the Russians.

DO YOU HEAR THAT GLEN GREENWOOD, JILL STEIN, AND MATT TABBI?

Though I have no doubt their arrogance will prevent them from admitting their assessment was WRONG

[Squinch]

4. None of them will admit they were wrong. My best hope is that they will finally shut the hell up.

[still_one]

5. Weather they admit it or not, the emails beg to differ, and the independent counsel I suspect will

also differ with their interpretation that they did nothing wrong

[Squinch]

6. I can't wait for that. It's going to be a happy day.

[still_one]

7. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[Thomas Hurt]

8. From what I am seeing, this meeting may have precipitated the Podesta email release.

at least that is something that will have to be investigated.

[Squinch]

9. Which essentially had the following: Podesta's risotto recipe, a bombshell revelation that

Donna Brazile told the campaign that in the Flint debate that took place during the Flint water crisis, there would be a question about the Flint water crisis , and some unkind snark about members of the campaign and the opposition.

And the same republicans who are saying this is nothing painted that as the end of the world.

But you are right about the timing: the email dump happened within two weeks of the meeting. I would bet money that the meeting was not the only one.

[byronius]

10. So much hyperbole from the orc hordes.

She bore the tirades well, almost as well as Obama did. She won my vote because of it.

[NastyRiffraff]

11. So true, but

certain people will never, ever believe it. They prefer to believe the right wing talking points.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Note mini-Trump accepted PREMISE of Russian govt support for Trump. The DEAL was already made.

Plus McCONnell refused to confirm Merrick Garland because he knew the scheme was in motion.

Thus by date of that first email, about a week after Republicon Convention, there had already been negotiations and agreements for that support.

The quid pro quo was the change to the Republican platform regarding sanctions against Russia and that there would be ongoing efforts by tRump to lift the sanctions.

[Squinch]

17. Yes, yes, yes and yes.

[KT2000]

13. the dirt was the email dump

is my guess. Something happened at that meeting and we will find out.

[magicarpet]

16. The dirty dirt of the meeting had not yet been revealed.

This is likely why don#2 released the emails so quickly. It gives him the air of out in the openness/no desire or intent to conceal - all has been revealed now move along.

His intent might well be to make the media and the investigative agencies focus elsewhere because all has now been exposed about this matter. Looking further leads no where.

This matter entirely closed - type smoke screen the true issues of this Russian meeting and multiple other Russian meetings of blatant Trump/Russia collusion then remain unexposed.

These creeps are the Masters of obfuscation and in your face diversion to hide and conceal their illegal conduct and criminal behaviors.

Do not trust - verify everything about them - and double check again.
Their word is dirt.

[elmac]

14. There is no and never has been dirt on Sec. Clinton

its all been a 25 year smear campaign by the fascist pigs.

[world wide wally]

15. You can bet the farm that if they ever had ANYTHING on Hillary, we would have heard about it