No. of Recommendations: 5
This is an absurd statement.
It's hard to process, sure. But all of the liberal media perpetuated the RUSSIAN COLLUSION hoax and help front Star Chamber sham impeachment process that was ALL based on a bogus intel report.
It's not hard to process. My assessment was there were contacts, for sure, but Trump didn't seem to get enough help to make a difference, though I can't quantify or evaluate the help he received, but it seemed minor. Your determination that any discussion of it discredits the source is just way out there - are you Q? There were plenty of contacts.
WIKI - Since Donald Trump was a 2016 candidate for the office of President of the United States, myriad[1] suspicious links between Trump associates and Russian officials have been discovered by the FBI, Special counsel, and several United States congressional committees, as part of their investigations into the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.[2] Following intelligence reports about the Russian interference, Trump and some of his campaign members, business partners, administration nominees, and family members were subjected to intense scrutiny to determine whether they had improper dealings during their contacts with Russian officials.[3][4] Several people connected to the Trump campaign made false statements about those links and obstructed investigations.[2] These investigations resulted in many criminal charges and indictments.
Starting in 2015, several allied foreign intelligence agencies began reporting secret contacts between Trump campaigners and known or suspected Russian agents in multiple European cities.[5][6][7] In November 2016, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov contradicted Trump's denials by confirming the Trump campaign had been in contact with Russia, stating in a 2016 Interfax news agency interview: "Obviously, we know most of the people from his entourage," adding "I cannot say that all of them but quite a few have been staying in touch with Russian representatives."[8][9]
See? The Russians admit there were contacts. Is the admission a hoax too?
The Senate Intelligence Committee Russia Report described how "secretive meetings and communications with Russian representatives... signaled that there was little intention by the incoming administration to punish Russia for the assistance it had just provided in its unprecedented attack on American democracy."[10] Ultimately, Mueller's investigation "did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities".[11]
Barr sidelined Mueller's report IIRC
More from WIKI:
By April 19, 2019, The New York Times had documented that "Donald J. Trump and 18 of his associates had at least 140 contacts with Russian nationals and WikiLeaks, or their intermediaries, during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition."[16]
The Moscow Project – an initiative of the Center for American Progress Action Fund – had, by June 3, 2019, documented "272 contacts between Trump's team and Russia-linked operatives ... including at least 38 meetings.... None of these contacts were ever reported to the proper authorities. Instead, the Trump team tried to cover up every single one of them."[17]
So, is your argument then circular? Since you deemed it a Russian Collusion Hoax - any discussion of it in a paper, etc., shows the paper, etc., to be a bad source, and therefore any quantification of contacts/meetings, no matter what source they get it from, is null and void? So it's all bad? Never happened? Is this your argument?
