Whoa, so it was collusion after all. Go figure. Who knew?!
Mind you, for all the Republican acolytes who tried to make the case that Robert Mueller's report showed there was no collusion...in fact, his report (which I read from cover to cover) actually said there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, but it couldn't be proven to be a criminal conspiracy -- and that, only because there was obstruction to keep them from getting the evidence. But now, a U.S. Treasury Department investigation has followed the crumbs and come up with the evidence, officially saying that the polling data that Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort passed along to the since-indicted Russian agent Konstantin Kilimnik...was, in turn, passed along to Russian intelligence agencies. Official enough for the United States to now impose new sanctions on both Russia and Kilimnik. That strikes one as real colludey. For all I know, it's also real criminally conspiratory. The good news for Manafor is that Trump pardoned him. To be clear, the Senate Intelligence Committee -- at the time run by the Republicans -- already released a report a year or so ago that concluded the same thing that the Mueller Report did, that Manafort colluded with Kilimnik. They just didn't have the final piece of evidence to go further. So, this should come as a huge shock -- which again makes Trump's pardon of Manafort all the more quaint. But having the evidence to make the official connection is always A Good Thing. During the election, Joe Biden held an online Town Hall with Barack Obama, and questions were solicited by the public. I decided to send one it. It was, "If you are elected, what will be the first think you say to Vladimir Putin?" The question didn't get asked, but I'm very pleased -- and not surprised that President Biden has put Russian actions of the past five years in full focus and enacted numerous sanctions against them already, only 85 days into his administration. And I'm not surprised. Trump, the gift that just keeps giving.
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