Quote:
Originally Posted by otatop
No. Proceed with caution here. Normally I would jump on new evidence against Trump, but halfway through the article 3 or 4 alarm whistles went off from the quotes and statements about campaign officials. Manafort was especially strange not wanting anything to do with Russia after having the adoptions meeting, doing soooo much work for Putin over the past decade, very likely laundered 10s of millions of Russian money into real estate, and actually TOOK other Russian meetings after this. It's not too believable that the other guys all wanted to alert NATO or worry about the law, even though nobody was ever notified and there were at least 8 other campaign/transition meetings with Russians after that and ALL were lied about on official government forms.
The question is, is Trump stupid enough to mix in edited or fabricated emails to Robert Mueller? Or is it possible the information "read to" WaPo doesn't match what was submitted to the Special Counsel? The truth will come out one way or another. Let's just hope that if this is forged, that it wasn't designed in a way that Mueller finds out but the public doesn't.
The reason I say to be careful is how this shows all the efforts on the side of Russia (just like their "claims" about the June 9th Junior meeting), and implicating just one barely known team member while clearing 4 others. Hearing a response from Papadopoulos will help a bit, but this whole story seems pretty unusual.