The Russians knew exactly what they were doing, and why would they listen to Trump? He’s an idiot.ĭid Trump coordinate with the Russians? No, because that would have required some strategic thinking, and Donald Trump is incapable of strategic thinking. But did he tell the Russians when to release the emails? No, he didn’t have to. Did Trump know that the Russians hacked Hillary’s account? Of course! Was he appreciative? Yes! Did Trump know about the Trump Tower meeting between Don Jr., Kushner, Manafort and a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin? Damn right, he did. Did members of his campaign - George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, and Roger Stone, among others - know that the Russians hacked into Clinton’s emails and were going to release them in order to damage the Clinton campaign? Yes. I don’t think where it concerns collusion that Mueller has another card up his sleeve, not unless something shakes loose with Paul Manafort’s deal.ĭid Trump know that the Russians were helping him? Absolutely. But what we know about Trump’s involvement with Russia so far seems to be all there is. That doesn’t mean that Trump didn’t try to collude with the Russians, nor does it mean that Trump didn’t obstruct justice, because it is fairly obvious that he did. Having finished Bob Woodward’s book, Fear: Trump in the White House, on the first year and a half of the Trump presidency, three things are clear: 1) That Trump is a dangerous, incompetent, unqualified lunatic 2) there is no doubt about who the sources were that provided the bulk of the information in the book, and 3), that Donald Trump almost certainly didn’t directly collude with the Russians.

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