Is the Trump Campaign Colluding With Russia Again?

[Zorro]

Giuliani’s dirty tricks are the scandal, not Hunter Biden’s hard drive.

By Michelle Goldberg

The Treasury Department last month imposed sanctions on four people linked to Russia for attempting to influence the presidential election, including a Ukrainian parliamentarian named Andriy Derkach, who has worked with Donald Trump’s consigliere Rudy Giuliani to smear Joe Biden. According to the Treasury, Derkach has been “an active Russian agent for over a decade, maintaining close connections with the Russian intelligence services.”

The Treasury said Derkach had worked covertly to cultivate “false and unsubstantiated narratives concerning U.S. officials in the upcoming 2020 presidential election” — an obvious reference to Biden. Derkach had released “edited audiotapes and other unsupported information” and managed to push his “unsubstantiated narratives” into Western media.

According to The Washington Post, U.S. intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that Giuliani, then searching in Ukraine for dirt about Biden and his son Hunter, was the target of a Russian influence operation. “The Russians have been cultivating Rudy Giuliani as an asset for over a year,” Chris Murphy, a Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told me. “Any information proffered by Rudy Giuliani is likely compromised.”

That, of course, did not stop The New York Post from publishing a series of breathless articles about Hunter Biden purportedly based on a hard drive that fell into Giuliani’s hands. Some of the stories — like one about Hunter’s anguished texts to his father from rehab — seem intended to wound Joe Biden by humiliating his child. Others were meant to resurrect the discredited accusation that Joe Biden pressed for the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor to help Burisma, an energy company that had Hunter Biden on its board.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/opinion/trump-campaign-rudy-giuliani.html

Duh. Of course they are colluding with Russia again.

[blueinredohio]

1. Did they ever stop?

[DIVINEprividence]

2. Of course they are

Trump will do anything to win. Our counter force must be equally intense

[Midnight Writer]

3. Not only the Trump Campaign, but the whole damn Republican Party.

I'm amazed there is not more investigative reporting into Russian influence on Republicans.

7 Senators, every one Republican, going to Moscow over the Fourth of July, and we still don't know the details of what went on?

This ain't normal.

[Iliyah]

4. Never ended . ...

[onecaliberal]

5. Putin is the real president and the republicans are wholly owned by Russia.

[Skittles]

6. he has never STOPPED colluding with Russia

he has long been Putin's puppet