Setting up this thread for discussion of the redacted report after it comes out this morning/afternoon. Barr is absurdly having a press conference to discuss with and take questions from people who have not seen the report yet, but that will be a trivial non-event (though part of the spin effort he started with his four page non-summary). The game will be seriously afoot by noon or so when the report gets posted online.
Unfortunately, I have a lot of work to do today and a social event tonight, so I probably won't be able to read the report until late. But I'll be certainly giving my analysis after I do. I invite others to do so.
@livineasy4 saidTrump admitted collusion a long time ago by admitting his role in attempting to cover up the Trump Tower meeting.
MSNBC has pushed collusion for 2,5 years, but there was none. They said there was no spying...There was spying. Everything seems to me to be reversed. I bet this will now be clarified, and hopefully we can all move on.
@kazetnagorra saidCollusion is not illegal though. What is your point?
Trump admitted collusion a long time ago by admitting his role in attempting to cover up the Trump Tower meeting.
@livineasy4 saidMy point is that your claim that there was "no collusion" is wrong.
Collusion is not illegal though. What is your point?
If it is legal in the U.S. to enlist the aid of a foreign military against your own country in order to win elections, then in my opinion the law should be changed in order to make this illegal.
@livineasy4 saidThat's not true. There was collusion from Trump's camp, such as with Roger Stone, friends with Assange, who released hacked emails obtained by Russian-backed intelligence, or Don Jr., who met with a Russian lawyer having contacts with high-level Russian officials, who lobbied against a law passed by Congress which, "coincidentally", is something Putin vehemently criticized.
MSNBC has pushed collusion for 2,5 years, but there was none.
What wasn't proved was collusion with Trump himself and the Russian government. But the fact that some collusion took place with members of the campaign are a fact.
@kazetnagorra saiddid you not hear the part where mueller said there WAS NO COLLUSION?
Trump admitted collusion a long time ago by admitting his role in attempting to cover up the Trump Tower meeting.
my goodness, what is wrong with your thinking?
@vivify saidreleasing hacked emails is not a crime. ignorant!
That's not true. There was collusion from Trump's camp, such as with Roger Stone, friends with Assange, who released hacked emails obtained by Russian-backed intelligence, or Don Jr., who met with a Russian lawyer having contacts with high-level Russian officials, who lobbied against a law passed by Congress which, "coincidentally", is something Putin vehemently criticized.
...[text shortened]... an government. But the fact that some collusion took place with members of the campaign are a fact.
@mott-the-hoople saidMueller said no such thing.
did you not hear the part where mueller said there WAS NO COLLUSION?
my goodness, what is wrong with your thinking?
Barr said that Mueller's report did not provide sufficient evidence that a crime was committed during the course of the Trump campaign's known collusion with the Kremlin.
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@mott-the-hoople saidThe more you post, the dumber you come across.
releasing hacked emails is not a crime. ignorant!
Those emails were hacked by Russians for the express purpose of helping Trump. A.K.A.: Collusion.
@kazetnagorra saidEven then, Mueller's team condemned Barr's interpretation of the report as wrong.
Mueller said no such thing.
Barr said that Mueller's report did not provide sufficient evidence that a crime was committed during the course of the Trump campaign's known collusion with the Kremlin.