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by siidooloo 2612 days ago
Yeah,

A bunch of people in the White House deleted evidence and used encrypted communications. Not hypocritical at all.

The President probably committed obstruction multiple times, but Mueller refuses to Make a final judgment on that because they believe that is the job of congress.

And the campaign did try to benefit from the Russian influence campaign, and did try to obtain the stolen emails. They wanted Russias help. But there was no evidence of direct coordination (remember the deleted evidence).

This doesn’t seem like much of an ‘exoneration.’

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The classic issue here is the lack of evidence could mean it didn't happen or that that the evidence is expertly hidden.

However the American spy network is large, well provisioned, has no compunction about spying on Russians and was controlled by Democrats when the alleged conspiracy took place. If there is no conclusive evidence of collusion then it didn't happen.

The idea that the Russians are better at influencing the American people than the Democrat and Republican campaign machines is jaw dropping. It doesn't make any sense. Trump could have found more capable people to collude with if he wanted to.

The Russians were better at spying during the cold war. Why wouldn’t they still be?

Also, the issue isn’t just if there was ‘collusion.’ It was what they tried to do. The Trump campaign tried to work with the Russians but failed because they had no idea what they were doing. They were doing stuff like sending people’s emails to the wrong place.