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In reply to the discussion: Trump officially became an illegitimate President today [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)I'll respond with the three reasons that is Apples and Oranges that comes to mind first. Already I have thought of two more and I suspect there are dozens but here are the first three.
1. If you have any familiarity at all with classified documents and how they can be accidentally and thus innocently transmitted, you know that this happens all the time and while undesirable, doesn't result in prosecution. You also know that classifications change and it is very possible, as we saw in this case, that the classification becomes more strict after the document has already been transmitted.
2. There is no legitimate reason for three non-elected official members of a non-incumbent Presidential campaign to have contact with high level officials of an adversarial government. Particularly, high level members that are some of the top espionage recruitment members abroad of that adversarial government.
3. There is no legitimate reason for those same three non-elected official members of the non-incumbent Presidential campaign to lie about having ever met with Russian officials during the campaign and then have it come out that they did. This after the Presidential candidate called for, on national television, the adversarial government to perform espionage on his behalf so he could win the election.
Those are just the first three reasons your post is apples and oranges.