Who do you believe?

[GMDino]

(10-03-2019, 07:51 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I'm reading a summary of the first part of the report now. It says "senior representatives of the Trump Campaign met in Trump Tower with a Russian attorney expecting to receive derogatory information about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government." I'm not sure exactly what derogatory information means, but it goes on to say "The Report provides no evidence that more significant information was exchanged during the meeting." They also muse:

https://www.justsecurity.org/63838/guide-to-the-mueller-reports-findings-on-collusion/

As for what they wanted out of it, the article mentions:

So that's likely what they wanted. I guess you could call it a quid pro quo...



So in terms of being approached and not seeking it out, this seems to have been the case for the Trump Tower Meeting. There was evidence that Donald Trump Jr. was the one who coordinated it and told his father that it was a meeting to obtain dirt on Hillary, but there's no proof that Trump Sr. knew it involved Russia at the time that it was scheduled.

But the back channel to Russia, the advance knowledge of Wikileaks releases, the sharing of internal polling data, the "Russia if you're listening..." moment, the Moscow Trump Tower deal, and the Flynn connection to Russia were all a bit more proactive, so I'm not sure if those would fall under that same umbrella.

And most of the reason why they couldn't prove anything was all the obfuscation by Trump and his minions.

Essentially they "played dumb".  Not sure how much of that is playing.