CarryOn wrote:
An "extensive web of contact" means nothing unless those contacts led to collusion, and they did not.
Senator Rubio (who chaired the committee), stated:
"Over the last three years, the Senate Intelligence Committee conducted a bipartisan and thorough investigation into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election and undermine our democracy," Acting Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said in a statement Tuesday. "We interviewed over 200 witnesses and reviewed over 1 million pages of documents.
He added: "No probe into this matter has been more exhaustive."
βWe can say, without any hesitation, that the Committee found absolutely no evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government to meddle in the 2016 election,β Rubio said.
Most of the discussion with respect to individuals on the campaign were directed at Manafort (who, by the way, was Trump's campaign chairman for less than three months). And even at that Manafort was eventually convicted of financial crimes having to do with tax evasion and failure to report income--NOT collusion or anything to do with collusion or Russian connections. Carter Page was indicted, claimed he was framed (which apparently he was), and after a three year court battle he was acquitted of all charges. Roger Stone was convicted of lying to Congress and obstruction of justice--NOT collusion or anything to do with collusion or Russian connections.
Whatever the "contacts" were, it was just that--contacts and/or communication and did not involve collusion. Whether, as you state, "practically all of trumps people" (which is doubtful) were "vetted by Russian spies" or not does not mean they participated in any wrongful activity, and the fact that none of them were convicted of any such crime makes whatever the "Russian spies" did irrelevant.
As for the suit filed against Trump Management, Inc. and the Trumps, this has nothing to do with anything. I suppose your citing it is in response to my dismissing your comment about President Trump's "criminal training" from his father but it proves absolutely nothing. No one was convicted of a criminal act. The case ended in a settlement between the parties with no admission of any violation on the part of Trump Management, Inc. and the Trumps. And it means nothing with respect to what President Trump's father might have "taught" him; and you have absolutely no knowledge of what President Trump's father did or did not teach him. Only what you wish to believe.
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