Swordsmyth
07-14-2017, 07:18 PM
Yes, these e-mails demonstrate that some within the Trump campaign (including Trump, Jr., President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort) believed that Russia — as a foreign power — was supporting the Trump campaign. And yes, they also demonstrate that those men were willing to meet with a Russian government lawyer who they believed was willing and able to provide them with information that would harm Clinton’s chances in the election.
But the e-mails do not show collusion. In fact, they show instead that the Trump campaign did not receive any anti-Clinton intelligence information from the Russian lawyer. This is hugely significant — and this is the thing the folks over at CNN and the Times seem to have missed — since it demolishes the key building block for the false Trump-Putin media narrative.
That building block — that Trump was both a victim of blackmail at the hands of Russian intelligence (by which Trump could be controlled) and the beneficiary of damaging intelligence on Hillary Clinton by Russian intelligence (by which his victory was assured) — was first laid with reports of a spurious “dossier” originally reported by CNN and later published in graphic detail by BuzzFeed.
Once that “dossier” was discredited as the fraud that it obviously was (https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/25141-fake-trump-dossier-collapses-under-its-own-weight), the liberal mainstream media continued to promote the narrative that the Trump campaign had been in collusion with Russia. The only difference was that the “dossier” wasn’t mentioned anymore: The mainstream media severed the root, but continued to distribute the fruit. Without continuing to refer to the “dossier," liberal “journalists” kept the narrative alive that Trump is “Putin’s puppet and is both under the control of and beholden to Russia.
The Trump, Jr. e-mails show that narrative is completely bogus. If the Trump campaign had been getting dirt on Clinton directly from the FSB and other Russian intelligence agencies, why did Trump, Jr. bother to meet with the Russian lawyer for what he thought was “opposition research” but actually turned out to be a bait-and-switch meeting? While the answer to that question seems to escape the folks who make their livings promoting the narrative, it is simple logic that if the campaign had a direct line to the dirt on Clinton, it would be pointless to go out of the way to duplicate that information by indirect means.
More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/26479-trump-jr-meeting-with-russian-lawyer-undermines-media-s-collusion-narrative
But the e-mails do not show collusion. In fact, they show instead that the Trump campaign did not receive any anti-Clinton intelligence information from the Russian lawyer. This is hugely significant — and this is the thing the folks over at CNN and the Times seem to have missed — since it demolishes the key building block for the false Trump-Putin media narrative.
That building block — that Trump was both a victim of blackmail at the hands of Russian intelligence (by which Trump could be controlled) and the beneficiary of damaging intelligence on Hillary Clinton by Russian intelligence (by which his victory was assured) — was first laid with reports of a spurious “dossier” originally reported by CNN and later published in graphic detail by BuzzFeed.
Once that “dossier” was discredited as the fraud that it obviously was (https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/25141-fake-trump-dossier-collapses-under-its-own-weight), the liberal mainstream media continued to promote the narrative that the Trump campaign had been in collusion with Russia. The only difference was that the “dossier” wasn’t mentioned anymore: The mainstream media severed the root, but continued to distribute the fruit. Without continuing to refer to the “dossier," liberal “journalists” kept the narrative alive that Trump is “Putin’s puppet and is both under the control of and beholden to Russia.
The Trump, Jr. e-mails show that narrative is completely bogus. If the Trump campaign had been getting dirt on Clinton directly from the FSB and other Russian intelligence agencies, why did Trump, Jr. bother to meet with the Russian lawyer for what he thought was “opposition research” but actually turned out to be a bait-and-switch meeting? While the answer to that question seems to escape the folks who make their livings promoting the narrative, it is simple logic that if the campaign had a direct line to the dirt on Clinton, it would be pointless to go out of the way to duplicate that information by indirect means.
More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/26479-trump-jr-meeting-with-russian-lawyer-undermines-media-s-collusion-narrative