The timeline is accurate. The only thing I know is about Trump attempting to sell the "naming rights" to a Moscow Hotel. To be a Trump Hotel. So what. If he can sell his tarnished name, more power to him. Is it political? Sounds like business to me, and I am no fan of Trump.
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This whole investigation has gotten so complicated I have lost track of what is what.
That may be part of the Trump strategy. They know it's unlikely anyone is going to indict a sitting president. That's a legal matter and would entail judges and juries who actually have to pay attention to the details. But they know it's really about impeachment, and that's a political matter. So given that fact, the strategy probably is just throw so much smoke and junk out there that the average non-partisan Joe just can't keep up with it all, gets frustrated, and finally just gives up and shrugs it off with a "a pox on both your houses." Trump wins and gets to stay in the whitehouse.
Given the short attention span of the American public (me included), that's a strategy which may very likely work.
I could agree with you except..... Why not tell the truth? Why lie until it is found out you lied. Then tell a new lie, until that is proven a lie. Then come up with a new lie?
At some point you have to wonder if maybe the lies are to cover up an unacceptable truth.
https://www.axios.com/trump-giuliani-evolving-denials-russian-collusion--d04aeed1-24cc-4609-bcf4-0632a2e193bd.html
Timeline
Nov. 11, 2016: Hope Hicks denies a report that Russian experts were in contact with the Trump campaign: “It never happened. There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.”
Dec. 18, 2016: Kellyanne Conway denies that there was any contact between the campaign and Russians: "Those conversations never happened. I hear people saying it like it’s a fact on television. That is just not only inaccurate and false, but it’s dangerous.”
Feb. 16, 2017: Trump says during a press conference, "I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge no person that I deal with does."
March 2017: In an interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump Jr. says, “Did I meet with people that were Russian? I’m sure, I’m sure I did. ... But none that were set up. None that I can think of at the moment.”
July 8, 2017: Trump Jr. responds to a Times report about the now-infamous June Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer: “We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at that time and there was no follow-up."
July 9, 2017: Trump Jr. issues a second statement, after it's revealed that he set up the meeting after being promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton. "Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. No details or supporting information was provided or even offered. It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information."
Dec. 28, 2017: Trump says in an interview with the Times, “There is no collusion, and even if there was, it’s not a crime.”
July 29, 2018: Giuliani says on Fox News, "When I say the Trump campaign, I mean the upper levels of the Trump campaign. I have no reason to believe anybody else [colluded]. The only ones I checked with obviously are the top four or five people.”
May 16, 2018: Giuliani tells Fox News' Laura Ingraham that looking for political "dirt" is a common practice, but that the important thing is that the campaign didn't use it: “Even if it comes from a Russian, or a German, or an American, it doesn’t matter. And they never used it, is the main thing. They never used it. They rejected it."
July 30, 2018: Giuliani doubles down on collusion not being a crime: "I don't even know if that's a crime, colluding with Russians. Hacking is the crime. The president didn't hack! He didn't pay for the hacking."
Dec. 16, 2018: Giuliani addresses reports that Michael Cohen has given special counsel Robert Mueller "valuable information" about possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia: "I have no idea what they're talking about. I know that collusion is not a crime. It was over with by the time of the election.”
Jan. 16, 2019: Giuliani says on CNN, "I never said there was no collusion between the campaign, or between people in the campaign…If the collusion happened, it happened a long time ago.”
The relationship between Trump, his campaign officials and Russia happened over the course of many years, was multi-tiered and happened between countless different individuals and for different agendas, and sub-agendas and sub-sub-agendas and agendas that were completely parallel to those other agendas.
Following the investigation while it's happening is like putting together a 5000 piece puzzle, except you're only supplied with a piece or two every couple weeks. Oh, and some of the puzzle pieces belong to different puzzles.
Still, there are enough crucial things that we understand now that are actually sufficient for moving ahead with impeachment. I worry that people are holding out for a fabled "smoking gun" that will tie everything up, not appreciating that what we already know is enough.
I seriously doubt you'd find any notes, memos or emails, audio or video recordings that would directly implicate anyone in the Trump campaign of any wrong-doing. The Mueller team is left with piecing together a story of what really happened and why. From the start, Donald Trump, Sr. has tried to convince the public "he had no business dealings" with Russia. That's significant because from everything we currently know about his efforts to build a Trump International Tower in Moscow, that would be true. But he's also tried to claim he didn't know Putin, had never met him and that no one in his campaign had any contact with Russians for any reason during the campaign. We now know this isn't true.
So, now the question people looking at this investigation as clear-eyed as possible have to ask themselves is: "What kind of relationship did Donald Trump, Sr. and all of his campaign/Administration associates or just plain associates (i.e., Michael Cohen and Roger Stone) have with the Russians? If it were all business, you'd think that not only himself but everyone else who had legitimate business dealings with Russia would just come right out and say so from the very start. But Team Trump has been acting as if they've got something to hide because their story keeps changing moment-by-moment, day-to-day.
I think it's very legit to ask why 10 people from Trump's campaign/inner-circle were in close contact/had close associations with Russians particularly in the run-up to and during the 2016 presidential campaign:
* Paul Manafort
* Michael Flynn
* Jeff Sessions
* Rex Tillerson
* Donald Trump, Jr.
* Jared Kushner
* George Papadopolis
* Carter Page
* Michael Cohen
* Roger Stone
Twelve if you include Donald Trump, Sr. himself.
Keep this in mind as well: No other presidential campaign has had so many individuals so closely linked to a geopolitical foe to the U.S. since FDR - and he only had one that we're aware of and look at all the flack he got way back then. That's an 11:1 ratio compared to all of Pres. Trump's campaign associates. I really don't understand how people can't look at this and not think something's not right about it.
https://www.axios.com/trump-giulian...on--d04aeed1-24cc-4609-bcf4-0632a2e193bd.html
Timeline
Nov. 11, 2016: Hope Hicks denies a report that Russian experts were in contact with the Trump campaign: “It never happened. There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.”
Dec. 18, 2016: Kellyanne Conway denies that there was any contact between the campaign and Russians: "Those conversations never happened. I hear people saying it like it’s a fact on television. That is just not only inaccurate and false, but it’s dangerous.”
Feb. 16, 2017: Trump says during a press conference, "I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge no person that I deal with does."
March 2017: In an interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump Jr. says, “Did I meet with people that were Russian? I’m sure, I’m sure I did. ... But none that were set up. None that I can think of at the moment.”
July 8, 2017: Trump Jr. responds to a Times report about the now-infamous June Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer: “We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at that time and there was no follow-up."
July 9, 2017: Trump Jr. issues a second statement, after it's revealed that he set up the meeting after being promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton. "Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. No details or supporting information was provided or even offered. It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information."
Dec. 28, 2017: Trump says in an interview with the Times, “There is no collusion, and even if there was, it’s not a crime.”
July 29, 2018: Giuliani says on Fox News, "When I say the Trump campaign, I mean the upper levels of the Trump campaign. I have no reason to believe anybody else [colluded]. The only ones I checked with obviously are the top four or five people.”
May 16, 2018: Giuliani tells Fox News' Laura Ingraham that looking for political "dirt" is a common practice, but that the important thing is that the campaign didn't use it: “Even if it comes from a Russian, or a German, or an American, it doesn’t matter. And they never used it, is the main thing. They never used it. They rejected it."
July 30, 2018: Giuliani doubles down on collusion not being a crime: "I don't even know if that's a crime, colluding with Russians. Hacking is the crime. The president didn't hack! He didn't pay for the hacking."
Dec. 16, 2018: Giuliani addresses reports that Michael Cohen has given special counsel Robert Mueller "valuable information" about possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia: "I have no idea what they're talking about. I know that collusion is not a crime. It was over with by the time of the election.”
Jan. 16, 2019: Giuliani says on CNN, "I never said there was no collusion between the campaign, or between people in the campaign…If the collusion happened, it happened a long time ago.”
If it were all business you have to wonder what Russia would want with internal polling data. This is the type of data you might be interested in if you were going to try to target specific areas of the Country with a disinformation campaign.
https://www.axios.com/trump-giuliani-evolving-denials-russian-collusion--d04aeed1-24cc-4609-bcf4-0632a2e193bd.html
Timeline
Nov. 11, 2016: Hope Hicks denies a report that Russian experts were in contact with the Trump campaign: “It never happened. There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.”
Dec. 18, 2016: Kellyanne Conway denies that there was any contact between the campaign and Russians: "Those conversations never happened. I hear people saying it like it’s a fact on television. That is just not only inaccurate and false, but it’s dangerous.”
Feb. 16, 2017: Trump says during a press conference, "I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge no person that I deal with does."
March 2017: In an interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump Jr. says, “Did I meet with people that were Russian? I’m sure, I’m sure I did. ... But none that were set up. None that I can think of at the moment.”
July 8, 2017: Trump Jr. responds to a Times report about the now-infamous June Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer: “We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at that time and there was no follow-up."
July 9, 2017: Trump Jr. issues a second statement, after it's revealed that he set up the meeting after being promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton. "Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. No details or supporting information was provided or even offered. It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information."
Dec. 28, 2017: Trump says in an interview with the Times, “There is no collusion, and even if there was, it’s not a crime.”
July 29, 2018: Giuliani says on Fox News, "When I say the Trump campaign, I mean the upper levels of the Trump campaign. I have no reason to believe anybody else [colluded]. The only ones I checked with obviously are the top four or five people.”
May 16, 2018: Giuliani tells Fox News' Laura Ingraham that looking for political "dirt" is a common practice, but that the important thing is that the campaign didn't use it: “Even if it comes from a Russian, or a German, or an American, it doesn’t matter. And they never used it, is the main thing. They never used it. They rejected it."
July 30, 2018: Giuliani doubles down on collusion not being a crime: "I don't even know if that's a crime, colluding with Russians. Hacking is the crime. The president didn't hack! He didn't pay for the hacking."
Dec. 16, 2018: Giuliani addresses reports that Michael Cohen has given special counsel Robert Mueller "valuable information" about possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia: "I have no idea what they're talking about. I know that collusion is not a crime. It was over with by the time of the election.”
Jan. 16, 2019: Giuliani says on CNN, "I never said there was no collusion between the campaign, or between people in the campaign…If the collusion happened, it happened a long time ago.”
The goal posts that have been shifting are on the left. Not one bit of Russian Collusion against Trump or his campaign has ever been proven. In fact, with an almost two year Mueller investigation and 30 million dollars, House Democrats want to open up even more investigations because they apparently have given up on Mueller ever finding anything. If they had confidence in Mueller finding anything they would let Mueller do his job and would need no more investigations by the House. It just proves it is all a political witch hunt to find something, anything, even if it is a Trump fixed parking ticket.
The goal posts that have been shifting are on the left. Not one bit of Russian Collusion against Trump or his campaign has ever been proven. In fact, with an almost two year Mueller investigation and 30 million dollars, House Democrats want to open up even more investigations because they apparently have given up on Mueller ever finding anything. If they had confidence in Mueller finding anything they would let Mueller do his job and would need no more investigations by the House. It just proves it is all a political witch hunt to find something, anything, even if it is a Trump fixed parking ticket.
Nice try at deflecting. I would be happy to discuss the points you think you are raising but first you have to address the point of the OP.
Don't try to shift the goal posts.
Is it your view that the response from the White House has been consistent and steadfast from day one? If so, support that contention. Then bring up your counter narrative and I will address that.
If your only response is The White House are the good guys and the rest are the bad guys, then you embarrass yourself.
If you want to engage, do so. So far you have not.
https://www.axios.com/trump-giuliani-evolving-denials-russian-collusion--d04aeed1-24cc-4609-bcf4-0632a2e193bd.html
Timeline
Nov. 11, 2016: Hope Hicks denies a report that Russian experts were in contact with the Trump campaign: “It never happened. There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.”
Dec. 18, 2016: Kellyanne Conway denies that there was any contact between the campaign and Russians: "Those conversations never happened. I hear people saying it like it’s a fact on television. That is just not only inaccurate and false, but it’s dangerous.”
Feb. 16, 2017: Trump says during a press conference, "I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge no person that I deal with does."
March 2017: In an interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump Jr. says, “Did I meet with people that were Russian? I’m sure, I’m sure I did. ... But none that were set up. None that I can think of at the moment.”
July 8, 2017: Trump Jr. responds to a Times report about the now-infamous June Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer: “We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at that time and there was no follow-up."
July 9, 2017: Trump Jr. issues a second statement, after it's revealed that he set up the meeting after being promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton. "Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. No details or supporting information was provided or even offered. It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information."
Dec. 28, 2017: Trump says in an interview with the Times, “There is no collusion, and even if there was, it’s not a crime.”
July 29, 2018: Giuliani says on Fox News, "When I say the Trump campaign, I mean the upper levels of the Trump campaign. I have no reason to believe anybody else [colluded]. The only ones I checked with obviously are the top four or five people.”
May 16, 2018: Giuliani tells Fox News' Laura Ingraham that looking for political "dirt" is a common practice, but that the important thing is that the campaign didn't use it: “Even if it comes from a Russian, or a German, or an American, it doesn’t matter. And they never used it, is the main thing. They never used it. They rejected it."
July 30, 2018: Giuliani doubles down on collusion not being a crime: "I don't even know if that's a crime, colluding with Russians. Hacking is the crime. The president didn't hack! He didn't pay for the hacking."
Dec. 16, 2018: Giuliani addresses reports that Michael Cohen has given special counsel Robert Mueller "valuable information" about possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia: "I have no idea what they're talking about. I know that collusion is not a crime. It was over with by the time of the election.”
Jan. 16, 2019: Giuliani says on CNN, "I never said there was no collusion between the campaign, or between people in the campaign…If the collusion happened, it happened a long time ago.”
Democrats have no proof that Trump colluded with the Russians to influence the elections. However, all politicians have proof that Hillary and the DNC, along with Obama followers in the FBI, colluded with anti-Trump seditionists working with Russians to derail Trump in the 2016 election.
"I don't even know if that's a crime, colluding with Russians. Hacking is the crime. The president didn't hack! He didn't pay for the hacking."
"I have no idea what they're talking about. I know that collusion is not a crime. It was over with by the time of the election.”
No president, nominee, or candidate has been consistent and steadfast from day one. It's called politics.
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