Sunday, April 28, 2024

No, ‘Russiagate’ Wasn’t the Hoax That Team Trump Claims It Was

 https://www.cato.org/commentary/no-russiagate-wasnt-hoax-team-trump-claims-it-was

The bottom line is that, as Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded in his own 2019 probe—to Durham’s and Barr’s displeasure—the FBI investigation was amply justified. True, it ultimately found no evidence of acts that rose to the level of criminal conspiracy, and neither did the Mueller probe. But let’s not forget what did happen: Russian agents did conspire to influence the election, undermine Clinton and help Trump, and Trump as well as people close to him eagerly welcomed the help. (We didn’t need the FBI or Mueller to tell us that Trump was thrilled by the WikiLeaks disclosures of hacked documents from the DNC and the Clinton campaign: he said so openly and more than once.) What’s more, some people in the Trump campaign actively worked to take advantage of Russian meddling. Mueller’s indictment of Roger Stone states that after the first WikiLeaks dump, Stone and other “senior Trump campaign officials” made moves to find out what other compromising material WikiLeaks had. The charges against Stone, on which he was ultimately convicted, had to do with obstructing the investigation; but the only reason he couldn’t be charged with conspiracy for his attempts to establish contact with WikiLeaks is that WikiLeaks is not officially classified as a Russian asset.

7 comments:

  1. Okay, so two probes found nothing, if anything there was more evidence of collusion with the Democrats but that changes nothing! It still happened!

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  2. Trump must be up in recent polls if they're trying to get this discredited lie out there again. Next week, it'll be 'Hunter Biden's laptop was never a story"

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    1. trump is one of those saintly people who never sinned and thus all charges are always the result of jealousy!!

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    2. You're predictable. I have never said he was sinless but he's pretty much the Jew-equivalent among politicians - he can be accused of anything and it's automatically considered true.

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    3. do you think any claims are true?

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    4. I'm sure a bunch of claims are true. But then, so are many about the Bidens and their corruption.

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    5. Moral equivalence - while I am sure a bunch of claims about Hamas are true but so are many about the Jews and Israel

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