Sturnam
Bluelighter
- Joined
- Aug 12, 2008
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The dossier was comprised of uncorroborated rumors. Buzzfeed were the only news outlet dumb enough to publish it and now they're being sued by some Russians.
And why are crimes Manafort committed a decade ago with Democrats relevant to Trump today?
I agree with you; Buzzfeed is built on clickbait (IME), and this was obviously gold as far as clickbait is concerned. I think it is somewhat telling that even after Buzzfeed published the full dossier, no other news organizations (that I know of) have published the dossier, including those 'fake news' outlets CNN and MSNBC.
On the second point, the crimes Manafort is accused of aren't necessarily relevant to Trump. They might be, but given the available evidence I would say that there's nothing that concretely connects his crimes and Trump. Now, there are some 'could-be' and 'what-if' links that could be conspiracy-theory'd into evidence, but nothing that I consider real evidence.
As far as I'm aware, he's been caught up in this because he was associated with Trump's campaign, and it appears that some shady shit went down in his past. Even if he is convicted of these crimes, it doesn't necessarily say anything about Trump's guilt or involvement.
The Mueller witch hunt is reaching new heights. With the 12 Russians indicted today, the corrupt Mueller team has now indicted 31 individuals and 3 companies, with more than 80% of the indictments related to Russians who we really don?t even know if they are real or whether they did anything to interfere in our 2016 election. These indictments today only diminish the validity of the ?witch hunt? by adding more ?fake indictments? to the already pitiful list.
I'm guessing you agree with this statement? It seems you have already made up your mind about this investigation and its legitimacy. Do you believe that every member of Mueller's team is corrupt? They are:
Michael Dreeben
Andrew Weissmann
Jeannie Rhee
James L. Quarles
Aaron Zebley
Greg Andres
Zainab Ahmad
Aaron Zelinsky
Kyle Freeny
Andrew Goldstein
Elizabeth Prelogar
Brandon Van Grack
Adam Jed
Scott Meisler
Rush Atkinson
Brian Richardson
Ryan Dickey
Uzo Asonye
I used wikipedia as a link for these individuals where possible, to be as 'neutral' as possible.