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Why the Trump Tower Meeting Shows No Collusion
RCP ^ | August 11, 2018 | Peter J. Wallison

Posted on 08/12/2018 8:30:52 PM PDT by lasereye

President Trump’s media and congressional opponents continue to see great significance in the now-famous June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer. Since the meeting was revealed, over year ago, it has provoked Trump’s opponents to feats of overstatement previously achieved only by Trump himself. Sen. Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 running mate, called it “treason” and the New York Times and other media critics of the president have warned darkly that the meeting is evidence of the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia.

This is odd. If anything, the circumstances surrounding the meeting demonstrate that, at least in June 2016—less than two months before the FBI opened its investigation of the Trump campaign—there had been no collusion. And logic dictates there was none afterward, as noted below.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; collusion; election2018; election2020; jamescomey; lisapage; mediawingofthednc; mueller; partisanmediashills; peterstrzok; presstitutes; robertmueller; smearmachine; trump
It is therefore something of a mystery why the Times, other media opponents of Trump, and congressional figures like Adam Schiff continue to cite the June 2016 meeting as evidence of collusion when, if anything, it tends to prove the opposite.

No mystery there.

1 posted on 08/12/2018 8:30:52 PM PDT by lasereye
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It is therefore something of a mystery why the Times, other media opponents of Trump, and congressional figures like Adam Schiff continue to cite the June 2016 meeting as evidence of collusion when, if anything, it tends to prove the opposite.

Yeah, while ignoring massive actual collusion, including the payment of millions of dollars and the giveaway of United States strategic assets for personal gain, on the part of the Democrat presidential candidate.

2 posted on 08/12/2018 8:39:33 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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Doesn’t matter. Convince enough voters to either stay home or vote DEM, and then stonewall Trump for the rest of his presidency. Who gives a rat’s @ss what the truth is.


3 posted on 08/12/2018 8:42:37 PM PDT by CatOwner
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The Trump tower meeting is a complete and total nothing.

If you pay attention to the media, ultimately you picture the universe as a giant spinner disk, like “Wheel of Fortune”, where one week we are Stormi, next week back to collusion, next week racist, next week tool of Putin, next week back to Stormi, throw some racist in there, back to collusion, Jared Kushner, back to Stormi, then racist.


4 posted on 08/12/2018 8:45:00 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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If you pay attention to the media, ultimately you picture the universe as a giant spinner disk, like “Wheel of Fortune”, where one week we are Stormi, next week back to collusion, next week racist, next week tool of Putin, next week back to Stormi, throw some racist in there, back to collusion, Jared Kushner, back to Stormi, then racist.

You forgot "children in cages" and "he's going to fire Mueller."

5 posted on 08/12/2018 8:59:48 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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So democrats collaborate with the deep soviet state of Russia , but the clueless GOP never looks into it, but somehow these clueless b@stard post McCarthyists were investigating and looking for juicy bits on Hillary?

We are in deep trouble and America needs to grow some, and the FBI is CIA are obviously gelded and hopeless.


6 posted on 08/12/2018 9:31:11 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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Don’t forget that Natalia was debriefed both before and after the meeting by Fusion GPS, that some high Dem gave her a special visa specifically for this meeting, and that a friend of Donald Jrs was used to pump up the meeting and induce him to take it.

SET-UP!


7 posted on 08/13/2018 5:11:04 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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Don’t forget that Natalia was debriefed both before and after the meeting by Fusion GPS, that some high Dem gave her a special visa specifically for this meeting, and that a friend of Donald Jrs was used to pump up the meeting and induce him to take it.

SET-UP!


8 posted on 08/13/2018 5:11:13 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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