I feel like the background context is important here. these aren't some kids from the Bronx, we're talking about nearly the hardest possible people to indict -- plus Trump Jr.'s admitted meeting and Trump himself inviting Russian interference, and so on
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Seeing as the prosecutors have no expectation that the evidence they're marshaling is ever going to be challenged adversarially in court, the evidentiary burden is almost certainly much *lower* for charging foreign operatives
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I'm talking about Manafort, Flynn, Papadapolous, etc. rich, important people and security officials virtually never get that treatment
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Oh, ok. This thread was about today’s indictment. I agree that Manafort, Flynn etc. have received punishments of the kind normally reserved for the non-powerful, which is a rarity
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as I recall it started about the Trump-Russia story in general. and frankly there is a *mountain* of circumstantial evidence there
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The impetus for the thread was today's indictment, which as yet is the only one that directly bears on the "collusion" theory -- i.e, the genesis of the broader Trump-Russia story.
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