Are Democrats' Claims About Trump Colluding With Russians Collapsing?

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 4/21/2017 | Staff

[mikey_hates_everything]

So a negative has to be proven before Trump or his campaign can be “cleared”. Gotcha.

[AlphaOneAlpha]

Comey is the greatest internal threat to the United States, period.

[Wuli]

Note to sessions: Appoint a special prosecutor, hand picked by you. Then with Comey’s lack of evidence they’ll quickly end the probe instead of keeping it open just to keep it open for it’s damaging political affect.

[New Jersey Realist]

thereby admitting to Trump’s claim that the Obama Administration was “wiretapping” Trump’s campaign.

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Exactly right. How come only conservatives can connect dots? What other way is there to spy on people beside having a mole?

[jdsteel]

We all need to laugh loud and long at every instance of this ridiculous accusation. We need to ridicule it at every step. Every time there is a vote on anything warn people to be on the lookout for Russians. I show a picture of Boris and Natasha Badinov (from Rocky and Bullwinkle) at appropriate times. Ridicule works.

[fuzzylogic]

Republicans should be demanding an end to any investigations unless they have evidence to justify it. Otherwise, this is just a witch-hunt...which we all know, that is exactly what it is.

[goodnesswins]

Yeah...these days Headlines become History books.

[Candor7]

We have to understand the problem facing the Democrats, the DNC was all in for Hillary, betrayed Bernie Sanders, and spent how many billions, including all that foreign money through the Clinton Foundation spent on the Clinton Campaign

Is there an accurate tally on how much Clinton spent form all sources? Then there are the hundreds of millions of dollars spent unsuccessfully by the e-GOP to make Trump lose the nomination.

There has to be an accounting in the material world. Can you imagine what the Chinese are saying to Clinton and the DNC back channel for all the millions they invested in assuring her re-election that failed? Purchasing an influence on the presidency that has not come about?

Lives are at risk. People in the Dem party and the Clinton Foundation could get whacked.

CONCLUSION: and low and behold: THE RUSSIANS DID IT!

The Dems are like kids who say the dog chewed up their homework.

They will hold this story for years: THE RUSSIANS DID IT. TRUMP IS ILLEGITIMATE!

Horrible! Hopefully Corey Lewendowski can put a stop to it.

America needs to vote resoundingly for Trump once again.

[ripley]

“It is obvious that the spoiled children of the Democrat Party are willing to destroy this country if they cannot get their way.”

They may very well be revolutionaries, fully aware of what they’re doing, intent on subversion and destruction, rather than childish adolescents.

IMHO

[HangThemHigh]

"I would like to believe that the lack of evidence of Trump-Russia collusion would finally discourage the MSM and the Dems"

The Dimocrats know in their hearts by now that there was no Russian interference, but they are all in and it is their only play.

The only way the claim completely goes a way is Trump goes away. Or the Russian "scandal" is replaced by some new fake news story.

[tophat9000]

The thing is this is becoming absurd

So the question is the FBI has been investigating Trump since June of last year

So the next logical question is how have they been investigating?

What warrants have been obtained?

Cuz no warrants for documents been served on Trump ... that would imply Secret warrants for Trump electronic communication (aka wiretap)...or investigating and collecting evidence with no warrants ( wiretap by proxy of a third party government or illegal wiretap)

It really boils down to you can not have an investigation without collecting evidence.

And if you had legitimate reason for investigation it’s almost impossible to believe there wouldn’t be warrants and wiretaps

Yet the same people that say no warrants and no wiretap on Trump....say it’s been so serious in that investigation on Trump has bern going on for almost a year

This make NO LOGICAL SENSE... how can you investigate without collecting evidence?

And if they’re not publicly presenting warrants to Trump to seize documents and not publicly subpoena evidence...

Then it’s been secretly done either tapping and intercepting Electronics communication or physically break and seizing hard copy documents

Again how do you do an investigation without collecting evidence?

Either they’re only using public documents which would be totally usedless for an investigation...

Or they’re collecting private documents which normally you have to serve a warrant or subpoena on the person to get the private documents and we know that hasn’t happened

That only leaves the only way to collect evidence is monitoring electronic communication...aka wiretap

[Taxman]

Perhaps Sessions will unrecuse himself?

[JimRed]

How can something that was never there to begin with collapse?

[sarge83]

Trump needs to tweet this question: Comey and the intel gang say no evidence whatsoever of Russia effecting election, so why is this a story? Why is this being still being investigated if there is no evidence unless for political reasons within the Deep State?

And in the next tweet ask: If Comey and the NSA say there was no evidence then there had to be an investigation in the last 6 months to come to that conclusion, which is it Mr. Director, MSM, Congress and DOJ?

[Jacquerie]

Republican Rome dealt harshly with those who deceived the public through whisper campaigns designed to stoke popular passions and unrest. In his Discourses on Livy, Niccolo’ Machiavelli relates how the hero of the 390 BC defense of Rome against the Gauls, former consul Marcus Manlius Capitolinus, grew envious of the praise and glory heaped on Furius Camillus. In 386 BC, Camillus led the relief column that, along with some ransom in gold, lifted the siege and saved Rome.

To knock Camillus off his high perch in public esteem, Capitolinus began a whisper campaign. He planted sinister rumors among the plebeians that a portion of the gold ransom was not given to the Gauls. Tensions and taxes were already high in a ruined city with a depleted treasury, and rumors of betrayal and corruption by a member of the senatorial class found fertile ground in the plebeians. As meetings among them grew into disturbances, the senate recognized the dangerous situation and appointed a dictator (Aulus Cornelius Cossus) to investigate. In little time, Cossus identified Capitolinus as the source.

As Capitolinus stood with a threatening group of plebeians, and Cossus was amongst a group of nobles, Cossus confronted him. “Who holds the gold?” he demanded. Capitolinus didn’t respond in detail and stammered instead that everyone knew Camillus was corrupt. The senate determined Capitolinus conspired to overthrow the republic and establish a monarchy. He was condemned to death in 385 BC, and was thrown from the Tarpeian Rock one year later.

Machiavelli wrote, “Men are publicly indicted before the magistrates, the people and the councils; they are falsely accused in the public squares and under the porticoes.” He drew a couple of lessons that would serve America well today.

First, false accusations in free societies, where all citizens are equal before the law, are detestable and horribly corrosive. Second, the flurry of unanswered rumors and accusations fomented by the democrat/media complex against the Trump administration reflect weak institutions incapable of protecting the civil society that republics stand upon. Machiavelli perceived that well-organized republics “allow charges to be made against any citizen . . . without fear and without respect to the individual’s position. After the charge has been made and thoroughly examined, (society) must severely punish those who make false accusations.”

Every allegation should be referred to an apolitical grand jury. Sessions should pick cities or counties from the heartland, say the Omaha Nebraska Grand Jury. Put me on the jury and I'll subpoena citizen Barack Hussein Obama.

[silverleaf]

thanks for the history lesson!