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Glenn Greenwald: Donald Trump Jr.'s Emails Aren't a "Smoking Gun" or Evidence of Criminal Collusion
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/7/13/glenn_greenwald_donald_trump_jrs_emails
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)The Intercept is a Russian propaganda organ.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)One is a very well known radio show host, liberal.
One is a very famous Senator.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)...last in Russia?
I hear Putin doesn't take to kindly to same sex relationships.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Johonny
(20,852 posts)He's long ago burned any bridge to respectability with common sense liberals.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)Course he was the du darling for a long time. Funny how people can be fooled.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)How is it that we are not simply ignoring him? All of his fans are now posting on some other website. Maybe they're interested in Glenn's incoherent ramblings.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)He has ALWAYS been a ratfucker.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)It's certainly not the kind of thing that could bring down an administration.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I'm fucking done with Goodman and DN if all they'll ever be is Greenwald's personal PR arm
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)Who said it was a smoking gun? it's the smoke.
VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)Now, should we come to find out that others were in Trump Tower at the time of the meeting, that would be circumstantial evidence that they, too, had attended the meeting.
See the difference?
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)It is tempting to use criminal law against political opponents. Remember the chants of "lock her up?" I think we should be biased against that and require slam dunk evidence. VOX published the views of 17 law professors and not one thought these facts were slam dunk proof of a crime. 12 thought there was evidence of a crime but none thought conviction was pretty much certain. I think we should probably prosecute political opponents only when we are pretty much certain 12 jurors would all agree. Otherwise we could end up like countries who routinely jail those who lose an election.
We need something like the "better 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man go to jail" standard here too. To keep politicians from giving in to the temptation of jailing their opponents for political reasons.
DanTex
(20,709 posts)Trump's nonsensical "something happened" statement about the Russian hacks. He bends over backwards to give the best possible spin on anything Trump or Trump Jr say.