The allegations are Russian collusion. You may have heard of that.
You asked: "Are you talking about Hillary? Are you actually arguing that Hillary set this whole thing up, leading right to Cohen's doorstep?" Yes, of course I'm saying that. And, whether or not I'm right, you have to realize that more than 10% of the country believes this. Closer to half. And, in politics, perception is reality, so the Left may want to think about the volatile situation it is creating. I think they think they can control it, and use the crisis to their advantage. Maybe.
"Amazing that she couldn't stop Comey from breaking protocol to hand Trump the election, given how omnipotent she was and still is." Yeah, he thought she was going to win, which is why he did it. He didn't think he was sabotaging her win. He thought he was safeguarding her presidency. Listen to his interviews. He has said this himself.
"This is what scares me. You are so afraid of being wrong about Trump that you latch onto whatever makes you seem right. A lot of Americans (probably the same amount that think we've never landed on the moon) are in the same boat as you. It's disturbing." Wrong. I'm not at all worried about being wrong about Trump. My eyes are quite open regarding Trump. I'm worried about the Democrats destroying our Constitutional system of checks and balances.
I know you think I am a Trump shill, but I have not been actively defending him much. I know my posts are interpreted that way when they are viewed through Left partisan glasses, but I don't start a lot of threads about him, and I sit a lot of them out. I do comment a lot on the hysteria of the Left, which I believe to be harmful to our form of government...and I know the Left would agree if the Right were doing the same types of things.
"Just to be clear, I don't have any money on collusion or no collusion." Neither do I. (And, after all, its not even a crime.)
"However, I don't have any reason to believe that anything done in this investigation was improper, at least in any substantive way (manufactured evidence, destroyed evidence, improper warrants, etc.)" I don't think you have the entire story, then. There is a lot of evidence of impropriety. It is just that your news sources don't report it.
"I don't care if you are right or wrong on Trump. But you are so deeply invested in his defense you aren't seeing clearly anymore. I'm actually not defending Trump half as much as I am attacking the actions of the Left, which I believe are undermining our constitutional form of government. If the Right did half the things the Left has done in this "investigation" (go back to the list of things Cole listed last week), the Left would be screaming bloody murder. But they aren't...not because they think those actions are ok, but because of who is doing them.
Again, they are selecting the man, and looking for the crime (or exonerating the crime), depending on politics. If the Right did this to Hillary, you would be "defending Hillary" or "defending the Constitution." Which would it be?