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An ounce of evidence 07-14-17 See Michael's latest cartoons HERE
.....is worth a thousand pounds of hairy speculation on the left.
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POSTED ON JULY 14, 2017 BY JOHN HINDERAKER POWERLINE
THE RUSSIAN BEAR AND THE TEDDY BEAR Talk of Russia, which the Democrats considered our ally (or something) as recently as 2012, when President Obama scoffed at Mitt Romney’s statement that Russia was a geopolitical rival, has dominated the political scene for months. Given that fact, it is remarkable that nothing particularly significant about Russia has been discovered. President Trump, meanwhile, has taken a tough line against Putin’s regime, much tougher than Barack Obama’s, as should have been foreseeable from his campaign speeches. The Democrats are pretty much reduced to using “Russia” as a magic incantation, that somehow may produce a dramatic effect, like President Trump’s resignation. Absent that, they appear to be out of ammo. In my view, the farcical claims that have been made about Donald Jr’s wholly innocent willingness to be provided proof of Hillary Clinton’s corruption were the last straw. The Democrats may not know it, and the Washington Post certainly doesn’t know it, but their Russia theme–in my opinion–is very close to being dead. You can follow a trail for a long, long time, but at the end of the trail you need to find….something. Otherwise you are wasting your time. Michael Ramirez uses bears to contrast speculation with evidence. So far, all we’ve got is speculation. That’s the big bear. Evidence, on the other hand… read more great commentary at POWERLINE POSTED ON JULY 14, 2017 BY SCOTT JOHNSON POWERLINE
LET’S CALL THE WHOLE THING KOLLUSION [WITH COMMENT BY PAUL] I wrote about the New York Times stories here and here reporting on Donald Trump, Jr.’s June 2016 meeting with the Russian lawyer in “The new meaning of collusion.” I focused on the latter story in a post early on Tuesday morning, before Trump Jr. released the email chain that the story described at second hand. Whatever the faults of the story, in retrospect I wrongly made light of it. As everyone now knows, the British music publicist Rob Goldstone offered to set up the meeting with a Russian government attorney “to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary Clinton and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father.” Goldstone held out the offer as part of “Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump[.]” For deep knowledge of the motives the Russian government, the British music publicist would obviously be a go-to guy — maybe in an Austin Powers movie. Goldstone’s come-on reads like a set-up. Responding to the invitation with anything other than a call to the FBI was exceedingly foolish. In his statement to the Times about the meeting, Trump Jr. “described the meeting as primarily about an adoption program.” While literally true, it is also extremely misleading. The statement, moreover, was reportedly crafted in the White House. One could reverse engineer a good book on best practices in scandal management from this scenario. read more |
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