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I think by this time anyone denying Trump campaign aides "collusion" just has to deny in the teeth of proof to the contrary. Why is it so important to deny it?

Re: blatham (Post 6566470)
Hey, georgeob's following my lead!

Criminally Insane!

But in a less formal sense, yes, I think it more than likely that Trump is both.

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Re: Real Music (Post 6566665)
WGAF??

The investigation into possible connections between Russia and Donald Trump's presidential campaign began after a tip-off from Australia, the New York Times reports.

Trump adviser George Papadopoulos allegedly told Australia's top UK diplomat that Moscow had incriminating "dirt" on Hillary Clinton.

The newspaper alleges the revelation came "during a night of heavy drinking" in London in May 2016.

Australia later informed the FBI.

The New York Times report claims that the exchange was the spark for establishing a secret investigation into possible connections between Russia and the Trump campaign in July 2016.

The newspaper's story cites four anonymous American and Australian foreign officials "with direct knowledge of the Australian's role" as its source.

The BBC has not independently verified the claims.

Nick Ackerman, a former Watergate prosecutor, said Saturday that the big issue in special counsel Robert Mueller investigation is not whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia, but whether it conspired to steal emails from prominent figures in the Democratic Party.

"I think the big enchilada here is the conspiracy to break into the Democratic National Committee in violation of the federal computer crime law and to use those emails to help Donald Trump get elected," Ackerman said on MSNBC.

"All of that is motive as to why Donald Trump and others were endeavoring to obstruct the investigation, and why Donald Trump told [former FBI Director] James Comey to let the investigation on [former national security adviser Michael] Flynn go," he added. "All of this is going to come together in 2018."

Mueller and his team are investigating Russia's role in the 2016 presidential election, as well as possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow.

The U.S. intelligence community assessed last year that Russia was behind a cyber breach at the DNC that resulted in embarrassing and damaging emails being leaked to the public.

Trump and his associates have repeatedly denied allegations that the campaign sought to conspire with Russia to disrupt and influence the election, and have insisted that Mueller's investigation is a "witch hunt."

Collusion itself is not a federal crime, except in antitrust matters. Mueller has not brought charges against Trump or any current White House staffer, though Flynn pleaded guilty in November to lying to FBI agents about his contacts with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. in the month before Trump took office.

Flynn departed the White House in February after it was revealed that he had lied to Vice President Pence and others about his contacts with the ambassador, Sergey Kislyak. Comey, who was fired by Trump in May, later testified before a congressional panel that the president once asked him to drop the FBI's investigation into Flynn.

The Russia investigation has cast a shadow over Trump's first year in office, and despite claims from the president's lawyers that it will soon come to an end, news reports indicate that it could continue well into 2018.

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So much was weird in 2017, but perhaps the weirdest was that people who nearly triggered a pizzeria gun massacre to stop imaginary child molesters rallied to support an actual child molester’s campaign for US Senate

The Republicans are already beginning to have buyers remorse about their tax scam. Rubio said, "We probably went to far on (helping) corporations. " Rubio now says that corporations are sitting on a historic levels of cash and that the tax cuts will not likely to have much of an effect on the economy. By the way that was exactly what Bloomberg said before the tax scam was passed. Now Rubio now believes the money will be used by the corporations to buy back their stock and drive the price up. It will only make the rich even richer. This will be third time in thirty years that trickle down economics was tried and failed. Rubio is trying to put some distance between him and the Republican tax scam. The fact is Rubio knew this before he voted for the tax scam and he voted for it anyway. But he wants to run for office again and he wants to be the first to say it was just a scam to put more money in the Republican political donors pockets.

When Rubio was asked if he was worried about how unpopular the Republican tax scam was he replied that as soon as the public (idiots) got a little more change in their weekly pay envelop it would become popular. The sad fact is the American got a far worse deal than the Indians got for New York at least Indians still have something to show for it. The American public never realized what they lost for the Republican tax scams. Every time taxes are cut expenses must also be cut and the easiest target is our secondary education system. When I went to college you could mow a few lawns and easily pay your tuition now you could own a large lawn cutting service and not come close to paying your tuition. Education is such a good target because the cost of government cuts is shifted to the students who it seems can borrow any amount of money because uncle Sam is the debt collector. If one of those 18 years olds without a job went into a bank to borrow $300,000 they would lock them up for being nuts. The bank wouldn't loan them a $100 without a job.

Say it does come together and the conclusion of the matter is the Trump campaign team and the transition team were in fact guilty, and Donald Trump is guilt of obstruction and the information is credible and incredibly damaging. What then? Will the republicans in charge of congress just go on attempting to discredit the findings and Mueller himself, or will they do something about it?

But he wants to run for office again

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“Trump Rally: Stocks put 2017 in the record books

Paul Waldman
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Know who else saw record Dow averages?
-Barack Obama
-George W. Bush
-Bill Clinton
-George H.W. Bush
-Ronald Reagan
-etc.
Because despite short-term fluctuations, over time the Dow goes up.

I think we can count on the GOP to behave precisely as a corrupted entity would behave in such a circumstance.