The issues:
1) Although there was no allegation of collusion with respect to the particular 13 indictments, this does not mean there are not more indictments coming -- remember the Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 between Donny Jr, Kushner & Manafort with 8 Russian officials & cutouts. Remember that Mike Flynn, George Papadopoulos & Carter Page are all likely to have colluded with Russians to "get dirt" on Hillary. It is also possible that Jared Kushner & Cambridge Analytica colluded with Russians on voter targeting.
2) The election was decided by a win margin of less than 78,000 votes across MI + PA + WI, combined. Given the size & scope of the Russian propaganda effort as outlined in these indictments, it is quite rational to ask: "Could 39,000 people (total) have changed their votes from HRC to DJT because of the influence of a hostile, foreign nation?" The answer is obvious. The next question follows logically: "Is Trump a legitimate president?" So long as no votes were changed, the answer is, "Technically, yes." But if state voter registration rolls were actually changed, this gets even murkier to answer, as the tallies would not accurately reflect the intention of the voters who were turned away due to Russian active measures.
3) Trump wants to claim that the influence operation started before he announced running for president, as if this vindicates him. There are some problems with this assertion:
- His first visit to Moscow on July 4, 1987 was almost certainly arranged by the KGB. (Remember this was before the Berlin Wall fell.)
- He gave his first attempt at a presidential speech three months later, on October 22, 1987 in New Hampshire.
- This timeline coincides with his opening of Atlantic City casinos in the Scarfo/mob-controlled years, and one must wonder if he got into the money laundering for internationals at this point, or later on. Now he just launders money through real estate instead.
- Over the next several months he made many obvious references to running for president & was interviewed by Oprah about it on April 25, 1988, after taking out a full-page ad criticizing the foreign policy of G.H.W. Bush.
- He trademarked MAGA on November 19, 2012, a clear indication after Romney lost that he was going to run.
- In May 2013, Michael Cohen told CBS News that they had already spent $1M researching the presidential race & forming an exploratory committee. This was a few months before another trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe contest -- where he bragged he did, then swore he did not meet with Putin, if you read the prevarication in his interviews.
4) In conclusion, when people attack those investigating them & Democrats instead of the Russians who attacked their country...it doesn't look good:
There are, of course, odd aspects of Trump’s behavior that arouse suspicions. His obsequious praise of Putin. The aborted effort to roll back the old Russia sanctions, and the failure to enforce the new ones. His refusal to accept that Moscow meddled in the election, despite the conclusions of his own staff, the intelligence community and pretty much everyone looking at the evidence in good faith. Firing his FBI director and reportedly ordering the firing of the special counsel. His constant fulminations against the “Russia hoax.” The fact that he hasn’t directed any effort to safeguard the 2018 midterms. If Trump is guilty, he sure is acting like it.#TraitorTrump #TrumpRussia #RussiaGate #MuellerInvestigation
