Discussion: Trump Tower Meeting Broker: Russia Probe 'Not A Witch Hunt'

ā€œBut at the end of the day if the findings are as we believe they are and thereā€™s no reason to think otherwise, then really people should move on.ā€

Thatā€™s all you need to know. Like Trump, Goldstone is just happy the probe is over and hopes it will go away. His statement that it wasnā€™t a witch hunt is merely a rhetorical concession made to lure the hearer into accepting his more dangerous and transparently self-serving attempt to sell the notion that there was no conspiracy and that Trump is innocent.

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Great Post. I look at Trump/Putin as sort of like a Russian opā€¦maybe 'cause it isā€¦

This fat fuckā€™s tasking in the op at this time is to ā€œget people to move onā€. Of course, to ā€œmove onā€ from the most comprehensive Probe into presidential criminality in history would be catastrophic for the United Statesā€¦thus the best way for it to happen is to get (ā€œsensibleā€) Americans (read: fools) to suggest it and advocate for it.

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ā€œI hope that everyone will realize this was not a witch hunt. This was a very, very valid exercise in democracy,ā€ Goldstone told The Associated Press on Tuesday. ā€œBut at the end of the day if the findings are as we believe they are and thereā€™s no reason to think otherwise, then really people should move on.ā€

Well, it looks like we need a music publicist to define valid exercises in democracy for us. And really, Mr. Goldstone, you may believe the findings are as you believe they are, or want to believe they are, but I think Iā€™ll wait for a wee bit more information before making my own decision.

RELEASE THE REPORT!

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We will be happy to ā€˜move onā€™ after we have actually SEEN the report and not the white washed summary. Thank you very much.

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In brokering the Trump Tower meeting over email, Goldstone said Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya had documents that could ā€œincriminateā€ Democrat Hillary Clinton and they were being shared as part of the Russian governmentā€™s support of the Trump campaign. Trump Jr. eagerly took the meeting, which also was attended by campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.

In what world is this not collusion? Russians were obviously exchanging dirt on Hillary for sanctions relief. The best - the very best - you can say for Trump is there wasnā€™t enough clear and convincing evidence to secure a conviction at trial, but make no mistake: the Trump campaign colluded with the enemy and are compromised. At least the American people understand this basic concept.

Our counterintelligence folk must be tearing their hair out. Because the kompomat rolls on.

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But the witch hunt isnā€™t over. Yetā€¦

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But he has such a believable faceā€¦

/s

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Weā€™ll be moving on alright, but not in the way heā€™s suggesting.

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So the defense is that even though they were very anxious to collude they were too inept to carry it out?

The sudden cessation of the Mueller probe and the whitewash Barr summary smell worse than the shithouse door on a bait boat. The entire Republican party is complicit in the biggest electoral crime ever perpetrated on the American people.

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First of all, letā€™s drop this mampy-pamby ā€œcollusionā€ bullshit and call it straight: what was described in that passage is willingness to conspire to accept things of material value from non-US persons in violation of campaign finance laws, i.e. a federal crime.

And given the source works for a hostile foreign regime, how is that in itself not ā€œadhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfortā€?

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ā€œEven though you deep down and fundamentally you know youā€™ve done nothing wrong, you believe youā€™ve done nothing wrong, youā€™re warned by so many people that the reason people get tripped up isnā€™t because theyā€™ve done anything wrong,ā€ he said. ā€œItā€™s that inadvertently or maybe on purpose they lie, "
ā€¦end dis, is vy it so hard and saddens ven Amerikans - of whom many good people - not understand de beautiful saints that president has around him in his court. So much to love, they by accident tell a falsehood that they not takink bribes. I testify for this tomorrow if congress want."

nb: and yes, Iā€™m making his accent thick and heavier than it might be in real life - sue me

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Moving on to more and more and more and more and MORE evidence