dajo9 said:
This "hoax" now has 18 indictments and 4 guilty pleas by my count. That's some hoax.
As thoroughly as I, personally, believe that (a) the Russians have Trump by the short hairs because of the money laundering which saved Trump's a*s when no legitimate money people would do so; (b) Trump is, in any case, tempermentally enamoured of authoritarianism and Putin in particular - not caring about the murder, torture and other oppression which is its stock-in-trade; and (c) there was cooperation between the Russian cyberwar on the election (intended to favor Trump) and both the Trump Campaign and the Republican Party (although, for the life of me, I don't know why Trump and/or the Republicans would have needed it since nobody knows better than them how to run a racist, divisive, vote-suppressive, American Campaign, including its cyber aspect), I don't think that today's news either speaks to either of those three points, or is relevant to Trump's claims that the issue of Trump (et al) "collusion" with Russia is a hoax. All it relates to is the fact of Russian interference in the election - a fact which, at this point, nobody is really denying, although, up to now, Trump has VERY WEAKLY whimpered his personal belief in Putin's sincerity, the only significance of which to me is the extraordinary feeble-mindedness of his base (which, remember, is close to 40% of the voting public) who do not question Trump's more-and-more idiotic pronouncements.