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Wow: Donald Trump Jr. Releases the Emails -- and They Look a lot Like, Um, Collusion
Townhall ^ | July 11, 2017 | Guy Benson

Posted on 07/11/2017 2:54:35 PM PDT by righttackle44

Earlier today, here at Townhall and on Fox News, I said that more information needed to be gathered before anyone should declare the Donald Trump, Jr. story a bombshell or a dud. First and foremost, I argued, it would be very helpful to see the actual emails that preceded the now-infamous June meeting, which the New York Times claimed would demonstrate that the president's son was well aware of the alleged source and nature of the promised anti-Clinton information (which never materialized) in advance. The Times story was rooted in unnamed sources who characterized, but apparently did not produced, the messages in question. In order to determine if the documents were being mischaracterized, we should see them, I said. About an hour later, Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted the full four-page exchange, which Cortney relayed here. Trump Jr. cast his tweets as efforts at full transparency, but one can't help but wonder if there was another pressing motive at play: He preempted the Times, which had the chain and was about to run with it. In any case, the content of these emails was, in my case, literally jaw-dropping. Trump Jr's associate alerted him to the supposed existence of highly sensitive information regarding wrongdoing tied to Mrs. Clinton, telling him that it would be furnished by a "Russian government attorney" who was representing "Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump" (who now claims she wasn't tied to the Kremlin). To which Trump Jr. replied, "if it's what you say I love it." This couldn't be much clearer: And these shifts look really bad, especially when you read the quote from March in which Trump Jr. flatly denies meeting with any Russian nationals in arranged meetings: . . .

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TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: breaking; collusion; emails; fake; fakenews; trump
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1 posted on 07/11/2017 2:54:35 PM PDT by righttackle44
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To: righttackle44

Yawn.


2 posted on 07/11/2017 2:55:47 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: righttackle44

Show me where collusion in a campaign is against the law.


3 posted on 07/11/2017 2:56:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: righttackle44

Where is it illegal?


4 posted on 07/11/2017 2:56:58 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pearls??? Where are my pearls??? I think I have the vapours...


5 posted on 07/11/2017 2:57:22 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: righttackle44

Does anyone really think he would’ve released the e-mails if there was anything in them to damage the president or himself???

Does anyone think he just released them without any attorney(s) looking over them and saying they were nothingburgers????


6 posted on 07/11/2017 2:58:25 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: righttackle44

Nonsense. Campaigns try to get dirt on each other all the time. Would the libs feel better if the call came from somebody associated with the Venezuelan government?


7 posted on 07/11/2017 2:58:36 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (A year in Arizona... and I haven't burst into flames yet.)
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To: righttackle44

Looks a lot like...honest journalism, er sumpthin’ close to this old geezer American!

Semper TRUMP!...If We Can Keep Him?
Gunny G
1952-72
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8 posted on 07/11/2017 2:59:40 PM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: righttackle44

It IS a matter of credibility. It may not be against the law or policy, but we would condemn the same series of events if the Clintons or Barack the Pretender or Schumer, or any other of the leftist beasts did it.


9 posted on 07/11/2017 2:59:59 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: righttackle44

First of all he met with a Russian. This Russian says she does not work or represent the Russian Government. Her main goal had to do with adoptions. I fail to see the problem with this.


10 posted on 07/11/2017 3:00:30 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: hal ogen

I was going to post that but I’ve been on the floor after reading this...

NOW Don Jr. is DONE for sure!

(cripes EVERY political campaign is “collusion” by this definition)


11 posted on 07/11/2017 3:00:56 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: righttackle44

Get back to me when they are through with Hillary’s collusion.


12 posted on 07/11/2017 3:01:12 PM PDT by jch10 (Laughing my Ossoff at the Democrats!)
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To: righttackle44

fk off.


13 posted on 07/11/2017 3:01:54 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: righttackle44

One dared call it treason. I’m not kidding.


14 posted on 07/11/2017 3:02:19 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: JBW1949

He had to release them because the NYT was going to.

I don’t like any lying or hiding on DJT Jr’s part. Look what a feeding frenzy he has caused from not being open about this from day one.

EVERY CANDIDATE IN THE WORLD welcomes HEARING dirt of their opposition, even if they choose not to use it. (McCain was stupid enough to use the stupid prostitutes peeing in the bed story because he pees his bed nightly now) It’s not collusion. There was no info re Hillary at their meeting. So where is the crime? There isn’t one.


15 posted on 07/11/2017 3:02:23 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: righttackle44

Collusion or meetings, agreements between individuals happens all the time in political races.
The question is does this break any laws of the USA. If not then it’s hype for news entities, etc.


16 posted on 07/11/2017 3:02:25 PM PDT by deport
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To: righttackle44

Still unclear if he actually received anything. Fragments I’m putting together indicate he dropped contact & walked out when he realized where it was going, before it got there.

And NOBODY, oddly, is asking WTF this lawyer had on Hillary.


17 posted on 07/11/2017 3:03:10 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: righttackle44

Hillary colluded with Ukraine. Where’s the fake outrage there???


18 posted on 07/11/2017 3:03:21 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: righttackle44

matters not to me except people should be treated consistently on both sides. That’s not happening.

Not sure why he released the emails. Why not ignore the whole deal?


19 posted on 07/11/2017 3:04:01 PM PDT by plain talk
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The difference is Clinton doing it with Ukraine or the Saudis or whoever wouldn't produce this banal media frenzy. The media in this country has no credibility left.
20 posted on 07/11/2017 3:04:01 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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