When I look back at reporting on Russian interference in the 2016 election and the contacts/meetings between Russian agents and Trump campaign officials, family members, and fixers, I do not understand why Mueller did not conclude that Trump colluded with Russia? Honestly, it is as plain as day that he did. It may be circumstantial evidence since there’s no tape of Trump meeting with Putin but taken as a whole these meetings are only circumstantial evidence of guilt like winning the Powerball 10 times in a row is only circumstantial evidence of fraud.
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The case for collusion is moving up the food chain.  From Flynn/Manafort to Kushner to Trump Jr.  One more step and it’s Trump himself.  What will it take for these Trombies to accept and the GOP to admit that far from only smoke, Trump’s active and aggressive partnership with Russia to hijack the election is a raging inferno?.  Our Republic, our ideals, our democratic institutions, our national identity and all  that made us the United States of America will not survive another year, never mind 3 more years, of the Putin/Trump plutocracy.   Would it not have been better to have ceded the Cold War to the U.S.S.R than to cede our democracy to Putin as Trump and his gang is doing?

Really?  If 3 campaign officials just 1 step away from Trump, 2 of whom are family, 1 is caretaker of his business and 1 is still in the WH to overhaul government met with Russian agents on the promise of help to get Trump in the WH is not relevant to the Trump administration, then to what is it relevant?

These people figuratively wipe their behinds with our flag and spit on our Constitution every day that Trump is in office.

And now the White House expects us to believe that Trump, who goes ballistic at the slightest intimation that he is not the B.M.O.C and the center of anything and everything, was kept out of the loop by his National Security Adviser, his campaign manager, his Attorney General, his son, his son-in-law, and an ever-widening group of friends and business partners.  That this cabal of loyalists were colluding with Russian agents, Russian lawyers, Russian businessmen, Russian bankers, Russian plutocrats and Putin proxies to hijack our election, set up a communications back channel,  lift sanctions against Russia, etc. but Trump knew nothing about it.  That even as Trump was decrying the investigation into whether his campaign colluded with Russia to put Trump in the White House as alternately a witch hunt or fake news, not one of the 3 “fixers” who knowingly met with a representative of the Russian government to do just that enlightened him to the contrary.  Why in the world would we believe Trump Jr., a serial liar, when he says the Russians didn’t deliver?  Or Kelly Ann, who believes in almost oxymoronic “alternative facts”?  Or Trump who hops from one sinking ship of lies to another sinking ship of lies faster than a drop of water evaporates in a desert at high noon?  If Trump is impeached tomorrow it will be too late because he and his ilk have already done irreparable harm to our nation.

These people figuratively wipe their behinds with our flag and spit on our Constitution every day that Trump is in office.