Setting up this thread for discussion of the redacted report after it comes out this morning/afternoon. Barr is absurdly having a press conference to discuss with and take questions from people who have not seen the report yet, but that will be a trivial non-event (though part of the spin effort he started with his four page non-summary). The game will be seriously afoot by noon or so when the report gets posted online.
Unfortunately, I have a lot of work to do today and a social event tonight, so I probably won't be able to read the report until late. But I'll be certainly giving my analysis after I do. I invite others to do so.
Waiting for the spin.
Then I'll read what's left of it for myself.
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@wolfe63said Waiting for the spin.
Then I'll read what's left of it for myself.
MSNBC has pushed collusion for 2,5 years, but there was none. They said there was no spying...There was spying. Everything seems to me to be reversed. I bet this will now be clarified, and hopefully we can all move on.
@livineasy4said MSNBC has pushed collusion for 2,5 years, but there was none. They said there was no spying...There was spying. Everything seems to me to be reversed. I bet this will now be clarified, and hopefully we can all move on.
Trump admitted collusion a long time ago by admitting his role in attempting to cover up the Trump Tower meeting.
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@kazetnagorrasaid Trump admitted collusion a long time ago by admitting his role in attempting to cover up the Trump Tower meeting.
Collusion is not illegal though. What is your point?
@livineasy4said Collusion is not illegal though. What is your point?
My point is that your claim that there was "no collusion" is wrong.
If it is legal in the U.S. to enlist the aid of a foreign military against your own country in order to win elections, then in my opinion the law should be changed in order to make this illegal.
@livineasy4said MSNBC has pushed collusion for 2,5 years, but there was none.
That's not true. There was collusion from Trump's camp, such as with Roger Stone, friends with Assange, who released hacked emails obtained by Russian-backed intelligence, or Don Jr., who met with a Russian lawyer having contacts with high-level Russian officials, who lobbied against a law passed by Congress which, "coincidentally", is something Putin vehemently criticized.
What wasn't proved was collusion with Trump himself and the Russian government. But the fact that some collusion took place with members of the campaign are a fact.
@vivifysaid That's not true. There was collusion from Trump's camp, such as with Roger Stone, friends with Assange, who released hacked emails obtained by Russian-backed intelligence, or Don Jr., who met with a Russian lawyer having contacts with high-level Russian officials, who lobbied against a law passed by Congress which, "coincidentally", is something Putin vehemently criticized.
...[text shortened]... an government. But the fact that some collusion took place with members of the campaign are a fact.
@mott-the-hooplesaid did you not hear the part where mueller said there WAS NO COLLUSION?
my goodness, what is wrong with your thinking?
Mueller said no such thing.
Barr said that Mueller's report did not provide sufficient evidence that a crime was committed during the course of the Trump campaign's known collusion with the Kremlin.
Barr said that Mueller's report did not provide sufficient evidence that a crime was committed during the course of the Trump campaign's known collusion with the Kremlin.
Even then, Mueller's team condemned Barr's interpretation of the report as wrong.