(THREAD) The Don Jr.-Wikileaks DMs read like a media organization promoting its published material, trying to ingratiate itself to a campaign, and asking for favors (unsuccessfully). Nothing more. That's not defending Don Jr or Wikileaks. It's defending objectivity.
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You're going off of an "interpretation" of the exchange that hand-waves the fact that direct action was requested by a hostile foreign actor (Wikileaks) and was provided by the candidate, when Trump tweeted out 15 minutes later.
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No, that's in tweet #3. "Hey, check out this public information" isn't illicit. "Psst, we'd like to secretly provide you with some stolen information" is. In this specific case, it's the former.
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Coordinating the campaign's actions with a hostile foreign actor isn't something to just be hand-waved away, whatever you may think. And that's what those DMs prove Trump did. It's not about the type of INFORMATION, it's about the ACTIONS the campaign took in coordinating w/WL.
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Nice essay, but Trump's CIA director Pompeo has called Wikileaks a 'hostile intelligence service.' Also 15 minutes after Don Jr. receives a DM from them, POTUS parrots the same message. In law, guilt isn't determined by success, it is determined by intent. My logical response.
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