Thursday, May 23, 2019

Mueller Report: Collusion Narrative Was Always Implausible

Two, the Trump administration's Russia policies were far tougher on Vladimir Putin than were those of Barack Obama.

Three, Russia has a long history of trying to warp U.S. elections that predated Trump and that had earned only lukewarm pushback from the Obama administration.

As far as alleged Russian collusion goes, Hillary Clinton used three firewalls - the Democratic National Committee, the Perkins Coie law firm, and the Fusion GPS strategic intelligence firm - to hide her campaign's payments to British national Christopher Steele to find dirt on Trump and his campaign; in other words, to collude.

Steele in turn collected his purchased Russian sources to aggregate unverified allegations against Trump.

If the Steele dossier - the basis for unfounded charges that Trump colluded with Russia - was fraudulent, then how and why did the Clinton campaign, hand in glove with top Obama administration officials, use such silly trash and smears to unleash the powers of government against Trump's campaign, transition team, and early presidency?

How can we tell that the former accusers are now terrified of becoming the accused? Because suddenly the usual band of former Obama officials and Trump accusers have largely given up on their allegations that Trump was or is a Russian asset.

Doing so would have been unethical if not illegal, given that neither official told President Obama that the silly Steele dossier was a product of Hillary Clinton's amateurish efforts to subvert the 2016 Trump campaign.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/mueller-report-collusion-narrative-implausible/

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