Obviously the conservative site townhall.com must not have gotten the memo or they’ve been hacked because how can they be agreeing with what’s being reported on Liberal CNN and MSNBC that it sure does look like some sort of collusion between Russia lady and Don Don Jr – PB/TK
Wow: Donald Trump Jr. Releases the Emails — and They Look a lot Like, Um, Collusion – By Guy Benson / July 11 2017
Earlier today, here at Townhall and on Fox News, I said that more information needed to be gathered before anyone should declare the Donald Trump, Jr. story a bombshell or a dud. First and foremost, I argued, it would be very helpful to see the actual emails that preceded the now-infamous June meeting, which the New York Times claimed would demonstrate that the president’s son was well aware of the alleged source and nature of the promised anti-Clinton information (which never materialized) in advance. The Times story was rooted in unnamed sources who characterized, but apparently did not produced, the messages in question. In order to determine if the documents were being mischaracterized, we should see them, I said. About an hour later, Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted the full four-page exchange, which Cortney relayed here. Trump Jr. cast his tweets as efforts at full transparency, but one can’t help but wonder if there was another pressing motive at play:
He preempted the Times, which had the chain and was about to run with it. In any case, the content of these emails was, in my case, literally jaw-dropping. Trump Jr’s associate alerted him to the supposed existence of highly sensitive information regarding wrongdoing tied to Mrs. Clinton, telling him that it would be furnished by a “Russian government attorney” who was representing “Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump” (who now claims she wasn’t tied to the Kremlin). To which Trump Jr. replied, “if it’s what you say I love it.” This couldn’t be much clearer:
And these shifts look really bad, especially when you read the quote from March in which Trump Jr. flatly denies meeting with any Russian nationals in arranged meetings:
Many Trump defenders on social media are now frantically reframing the contours of the debate. The standard has been, for months, that there is zero evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians. Until the last 24 hours or so, that had been true, much to the chagrin and consternation of many on the Left. But these emails topple that once-potent argument. Some are now saying that this isn’t collusion, but merely “opposition research.” It’s both, isn’t it? Here we have top Trump lieutenants (including Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, who were, ahem, looped into this email chain) meeting in person, eyes wide open, with someone at least one of them believed to be a Russian government intermediary promising harmful opposition research on Hillary Clinton. That’s not the same as colluding to hack the DNC’s emails, for example, but it’s certainly a form collusion.
Continue to townhall.com article: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2017/07/11/donald-trump-jr-released-the-emails–and-they-look-a-lot-like-um-collusion-n2353355
