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by mint2 1682 days ago
The Russian government was working to help trump win, that is a fact, and Trump welcomed it. Trump then showed he was at best trivially manipulated by Putin as president and his campaign manager had literally been giving Russia polling data.

Obsessing over the Russia dossier which wasn’t the basis for this investigation and discounting the whole trump Russia thing is like saying sequoia National forest doesn’t exist because one of the trees turned out to be a cell tower.

Edit: many downvotes without logical replies, actually without any replies at the moment, shows this comment is making people experience inconvenient truths, which they must cancel. Long live the cancel culture, am I right?

2 comments

You provide no proof or evidence for any of your claims, that's why you have been downvoted. Being downvoted for adding nothing to the discussion is not cancel culture, nobody is offended at what you wrote and no one is trying to remove it from the web or ban you from the platform. I'm hoping that this is sarcasm that went over my head.
I provided no proof because the facts I stated are well known, but more importantly this article itself points out Russia interference in the election and various trump Russia connections that are unrelated to the dossier. It would be weird to reiterating the article we all read, we all read it right?

In fact, to continue my analogy, the article itself explains that the rest of the forest is a big factor of why some journalists reported like the cell tower was a tree.

So No, I don’t need to provide support of statements that the article we are commenting on already supports.

It’s clear those statements are inconvenient to people so they are downvoting and not even reading the article

>Obsessing over the Russia dossier which wasn’t the basis for this investigation

Are you sure about that? I read they couldn't have gotten a FISA warrant without it.