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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Trump Campaign Accepted Russian Help to Win in 2016. Case Closed.
Cooperation or collusion or whatever. It was a plot against American democracy.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/opinion/trump-russia-2016-report.html
From the start, the Trump-Russia story has been both eye-glazingly complex and extraordinarily simple.
Who is Oleg Deripaska? Whats the G.R.U. again? Who owed what to whom? The sheer number of crisscrossing characters and interlocking pieces of evidence the phone calls, the emails, the texts, the clandestine international meet-ups has bamboozled even those who spend their days teasing it all apart. Its no wonder average Americans tuned out long ago.
A bipartisan report released Tuesday by the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee cuts through the chaff. The simplicity of the scheme has always been staring us in the face: Donald Trumps 2016 campaign sought and maintained close contacts with Russian government officials who were helping him get elected. The Trump campaign accepted their offers of help. The campaign secretly provided Russian officials with key polling data. The campaign coordinated the timing of the release of stolen information to hurt Hillary Clintons campaign.
The Senate committees report isnt telling this story for the first time, of course. (Was it only a year ago that Robert Mueller testified before Congress about his own damning, comprehensive investigation?) But it is the first to do so with the assent of Senate Republicans, who have mostly ignored the gravity of the Trump camps actions or actively worked to cast doubt about the demonstrable facts in the case.
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Sorry if this was posted before. I just read it and thought maybe some of you had also missed it.
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The Trump Campaign Accepted Russian Help to Win in 2016. Case Closed. (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Aug 2020
OP
Cha
(297,503 posts)1. Yep.. & Putin is helping him again.. only the Puppet
Needs MOAR HELP this time.
After 4 years of his Puppet's Treason, Killing, & HATE Fest.. Many More know what a fucking, Lying Psycho he is.
TY for verification from the NYT, Nd.
Notice I like to unload on these posts.. it cathartic.. so thank you!
Nevilledog
(51,170 posts)4. Same for me. It helps my psyche.
Cha
(297,503 posts)5. It does.. we're still
sane aren't we?!