My thinking, the Trump Tower meeting was not about new dirt on Hillary Clinton

[itsrobert]

It was about the coordination of when and where they were going to release the dirt and other attacks for maximum effect.

[leftstreet]

1. Maybe it had nothing to do with Clinton

Maybe it was all about money and favors for lifting sanctions, and the 'dirt on Hillary Clinton!!!' is just a smokescreen

[machoneman]

2. I agree but...

believe far more nefarious conversations took place. Like....

-when will the Magnitsky act be repealed?
-when will the State Dept, the DOD or Trump state that Russia's land grab was legal and a-o.k. with us?
-how will Trump get paid? And when? How much? and how will it be routed to avoid US laws and the IRS?

See, just dirt on Hillary was not the most important discussion in my mind.

[Iahotdog]

3. My thoughts exactly.

[bettyellen]

4. Well yeah, how to release dirt w Wiki and have nots spread it.

And I’m sure they had them in touch w Cambridge analytica to give them their voter roll info.

[wasupaloopa]

5. It was to be a trade, dirt on Clinton in exchange for a promice to lift

sanctions and to get rid of the Magnitsky act.

[DownFromTheMountain]

6. I'm rejecting any references to "dirt"

Because, what dirt? Where is it it? I'm getting pretty clear there wasn't and will never be any "dirt", and continuing to use the phrase in conversation is an error.

[brush]

7. Jr's email thread pre-meeting tells us clearly it was about getting dirt.

Coordination for later release may well have also been discussed, such as the released of DNC emails.

[Cracklin Charlie]

8. You might be right, because...

What happened to the dirt? I never saw it. No dirt.

Sure went to a lotta trouble for some emails. And they probably thought they could get away with calling it opposition research.

I’m certain there were other much more nefarious reasons for the meeting in the tower.

[Beartracks]

9. No! It was about adoption!!1!!

Putin had adopted Trump, and sent his people to check up on him.



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[randr]

10. Don got conned by the Russians

[KY_EnviroGuy]

11. What I would like to see is a summary...

of exactly how much money tRump owes that has Russian strings attached, either through secret real estate deals, bank loans or whatever.

It's very much in our faces that something drove tRump and associates to snuggle up to Russians almost entirely. That is, why just Russians? Why not France or German or Brazil, or even China?

My suspicions are:
* tRump and his family feel an obligation to do Russia's bidding due to financial ties,
* they knew Russia wanted tRump to win and that they despised Hillary, and
* they knew that second only to the US, Russia has the most powerful network of internet hackers and intelligence networks that could help sway the election.

Therefore, I suspect this meeting was simply to solidify some aspects of the overall conspiracy package for tRump.

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