I would dismiss this, except:
1) Chait is no lightweight;
2) People I know who have good IC contacts have been saying something close to this for over a year; and
3) The one-on-one meeting with Putin - without any US ears, even a translator - is so over-the-top weird that I can't wrap my head around it. So much of what he does is exactly what Russia wants him to do, including undermining NATO for no reason. I've generally thought that it was conspiratorial to think there was something more here...but what if it can't all be explained by gross incompetence and psychopathology? What if the simplest explanation is actually true?
What if he is a Russian asset?
If the scenario here is only half-true, it will take generations for this country to recover from the Trump years. A quarter, even.
Read it, and tell me that parts don't ring true.
Link: https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html
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Or, with whom I used to work, for our grammarians.
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This is worse than getting Rick Rolled.
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Leave any kind of speculative post here either pro or con about the Russian collusion issue and this will trigger a gazillion spasmodic reactive posts. This is more proof that Darwin was wrong.
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Nothing to do about this except to accept it as a sad reality.
Very sad folk who think they are happy.
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Full disclosure, I am not a Republican.
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"Get bent," is 1950s US college/beatnik slang. It should be understood as calling someone a worthless hobo whose only form of amusement is getting black-out drunk. You are right, though...the term was later used to describe homosexuals, but that wasn't my intention. I was just supplying some harmless banter...no hate intended.
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A nearly all white, catholic Ireland.
Hardly a credible investigative reporter. He's a freakin' UM Grad for Cry Sakes.
The creation of the electoral college so they could reap the benefits of the 2016 election.
foriegn powers.
The republican candidate l, let alone actually become president until about Late October 2016. If the Russians were going to try to meddle with anyone, don’t you think they would have gone after Bush, Rubio or even Hillary? Hell, all they had to do was dive deep into the Clinton Foundation to control her.
Furthermore, there’s really nothing he’s done those that voted for him didnt want him to do. And, frankly, outside of Russians manipulating ballot boxes, who really cares what role they played. The fact a few of you spend so much time worrying about this is laughable. You really should just come to grips with the fact the electoral college doesn’t share your liberal dreams.
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Unbelievable that we have posters who remain comfortable with both scenarios.
"I like his policies!!"
"It is all about SCOTUS!!"
matters not to them.