LOL
I was replying to a post that said "
trump was not involved in any way" which is simply not credible at all...except for people like you and OB apparently. And as I said, involvement can be both before and after the fact. It can also mean 'to benefit'
for chrissakes just fucking google what George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to. And yeah, I know about the strategy of deniability , but anyone who believes trump didn't know about
any contacts between his campaign, wikileaks, and russia is willfully naive. And why the fuck did the orange asshole spend his first 3 years doing dishonest and ridiculous back-flips about russian involvement?...yeah, I would say guilty conscience but of course that requires a moral compass and trump has none
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At least 17 Trump associates had contacts with Russians or Wikileaks, which released hacked documents, during the campaign or transition, according to an analysis of public records by the New York Times, with at least 100 face-to-face interactions, phone calls or electronic messages with Russians or Kremlin-linked figures and at least 51 individual communications.
Trump aides known to have had contact with Russians include the president's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, his son Donald Trump Jr, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former personal lawyer Michael Cohen." *
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but there is also this:
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No, Mueller does not appear to have developed evidence that anyone associated with the Trump campaign was involved in the hacking operation itself. And no, the investigation did not find a criminal conspiracy in the veritable blizzard of contacts between Trumpworld and the Russians. But this is an ugly story for Trump.
Here’s the key point: If there wasn’t collusion on the hacking, it sure wasn’t for lack of trying. Indeed, the Mueller report makes clear that Trump personally ordered an attempt to obtain Hillary Clinton’s emails; and people associated with the campaign pursued this believing they were dealing with Russian hackers. Trump also personally engaged in discussions about coordinating public-relations strategy around WikiLeaks releases of hacked emails. At least one person associated with the campaign was in touch directly with the Guccifer 2.0 persona—which is to say with Russian military intelligence. And Donald Trump Jr. was directly in touch with WikiLeaks—from whom he obtained a password to a hacked database. There are reasons none of these incidents amount to crimes—good reasons, in my view, in most cases, viable judgment calls in others. But the picture it all paints of the president’s conduct is anything but exonerating." *
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/ben-wittes-five-conclusions-mueller-report/588259/
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that's the definition of involvement, and fuck the ridiculous idea that trump wasn't part of it
I don't give a shit about trump leg-humpers trying to parse legal terms or arguing about exoneration from weak-asss investigations that didn't at least test any legal boundaries between courts and the administration or the legislative and executive. Trump was involved in what russia did in 2016. He was involved when it was happening, and he was involved when his white house was trying to cover up and distract