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So much for the fig leaf of oafish ‘innocence’ that the Donald dared to display, every time he sung his tune, to anyone that would listen:
“No Collusion, No Collusion! There was no Collusion. Case closed.”
Not so fast — delusional dimwit of disastrous Dirt-dealings ...
It is in this light that President Donald Trump’s emerging Ukrainian scandal, which increasingly appears like it will lead to his impeachment, takes on even more significance. After all, if Trump was willing to so brazenly “collude” with the Ukrainian president to interfere in the 2020 election cycle, just as he was escaping the Russian investigation, shouldn’t we now assume that he at least attempted to do exactly the same thing in 2016?
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So, for the sake of argument, let’s assume that Trump indeed did exactly what he and his own lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, have already publicly implied is true: he sought the underhanded help of a foreign government in his own presidential campaign. While you can argue that doing this as president of the United States, and thus using tax-payer money and the prestige of our government as leverage for his mob-like extortion, is worse than even what was alleged in the Russian investigation, it should not be underestimated just how much this Ukrainian allegation completely undermines the entire Trump defense with regard to what happened in 2016 with Russia.
Once you “know” that Trump was willing and able to be so overtly outlandish in this realm when he had every reason to know that he was under much more scrutiny than he was in 2016, it becomes nearly impossible to still believe that the Trump campaign didn’t really “collude” with Russia during that campaign. For instance, seen through the prism of the Ukrainian story, it is now laughable to think that Trump himself wasn’t directly involved in the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton, and his very public plea for Russia to find Hillary’s emails (which they tried to do that very night!) now can no longer be viewed as a harmless joke.
Then, of course, there is the number one fact that somehow got almost entirely lost in the Russia investigation: Trump, even as the GOP presidential nominee, was trying to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, publicly lying about it, and his personal attorney was lying to Congress about the timing of the deal in a way that sure seemed as if the perjury had to be somewhat directed by the president.
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www.mediaite.com — Sept 24, 2019
When the suspected bank-robbery gets nabbed, walking into a new bank, wielding a quarter-billion dollar sledge-hammer along with his crumbled Post-it-Note — shouldn’t investigators take another look at his other suspected heists, in the bright light of this new “caught red-handed” collusion transcript ???
All those mocking slogans of “No Collusion, No Collusion!” … look a less credible given all the on-going colluding tactics The Donald uses behind the scenes … to ‘DO the business’ of {cough} America.
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Heh, Vladimir we need to talk again, O-Kei? No staff, use my private line. Capiche?
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Doh! Collusion! Yes, indeed.
So what, Trump says now ... [according to the NYT.]
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