emptywheel

It's just so far fetched, that kind of collusion story, and the evidence is against it.

It's extremely far-fetched, which makes it all the more shocking that there's so much public evidence that the Trump campaign, transition, and administration conspired with Russia to defraud the United States.

They didn't have the Clinton Foundation to make it easy to pay for play, hence all the pathetic bumbling

Have you read @emptywheel's series on the questions? This post--on Mueller's theory of conspiracy to defraud the US--is also really helpful: https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/03/28/mueller-prepares-to-reveal-the-first-cards-in-the-hack-and-leak-conspiracy/ …

The writer there assumes throughout a certain story, then points out where a few facts could align with that story. It's the story you guys want to be true, I get that. But it's also preposterous for several reasons. First...

Everyone knew Manafort had Russian connections. That's why hiring him was stupid. It was especially stupid if it was part of a super-secret plot. Then he was fired. Again, chaos, not conspiracy. But...

From a conspiracy theory perspective, I know that the more absurd it is, the more one can paint it as an even more startling conspiracy. Second,

The Papadopolous stuff makes no sense if there was a high-level conspiracy ongoing or in the offing. Neither does the meeting with the Russian attorney. She had to lie to get the meeting. It smacks of exactly what you find when you read the history of this sort of thing.