CRIMINAL TRAGEDY? The Real Hillary Clinton Conspiracy Is What Stuck Us With President Donald Trump

[DonViejo]

The most royally screwed-over person in the history of American politics should be in the White House, right now.

MICHAEL TOMASKY
07.13.17 1:00 AM ET

Wednesday morning, Donald Trump went back to the well, and he tried to change the subject to Hillary:

Not one of his most offensive tweets, but surely among the most pathetic. “May have gotten away with”? He’s accused her of everything short of homicide, most of the time with no evidence at all, and now he’s reduced to the conditional tense?

Link to tweet

Others were less tentative. Sean Hannity started out his interview with Don Jr. Tuesday night slamming us fake media types for totally ignoring the supposed huge scandal of the Clinton campaign coordinating with Ukraine last year, because they did it too, see, and it was even worse, and why aren’t the media all over that?

He was referring to a long Politico piece from back in January that told the story of a woman, Alexandra Chalupa, who was a consultant to the Democratic National Committee. Of Ukrainian heritage, she was quite naturally interested all things relating to Russia and her home country, including the doings of Paul Manafort.

It’s a long and complicated story, but ultimately one that alleges nothing more than that some Ukrainian politicians and Ukrainian figures in America supported Clinton and opposed Trump and did and said things, normal things, to promote their preferred outcome. Chalupa researched Manafort’s Russia connections. She told Politico that she “occasionally shared her findings with officials from the DNC and the Clinton campaign.” There is no time frame on this, and no discussion of what “occasionally” meant. In any case, Chalupa, identified in news stories as “Ukrainian-American,” presumably was and is (unlike Natalia Veselnitskaya) an American citizen, doing research in her private time.

And that’s it. She didn’t email Chelsea Clinton dangling dirt on Trump sourced to the Ukrainian government. Chelsea did not write back “I love it.” Chalupa did not get a resulting meeting with Chelsea, John Podesta, and Robbie Mook. And across all of Politico’s sprawling 2,500 or so words, there is no allegation that Ukrainian efforts to promote Clinton were coordinated in Kiev by the Poroshenko government, while the efforts to promote Trump and to damage Clinton were of course run directly out of the Kremlin.

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[spanone]

1. they bash Hillary & Obama whenever they're caught...so predictable.

[gademocrat7]

2. Every day chump becomes more unstable.

His tweets are disgraceful and unpresidential.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Just about anything Trump/GOP say, allege about Clinton

goes in one ear and out the other one.

[newblewtoo]

4. over time I have come to

wonder if tRump isn't part Houdini and part Billy Flynn. He distracts with a sleight of hand thus fueling his base with an underdog (everyone in the media is against me) status. Then he puts on the old 'razzle dazzle' dragging out Hillary's bad acts. Is he playing the media or is he even that clever?

I confess it does wake me up at night wondering. Every time one of these stories breaks it seems there is a counter story waiting in the wings to be trotted out defamatory of Hillary.

[ehrnst]

5. No vast right wing conspiracy here at all. Nosirree. (nt)