Trump is furiously tweeting about Russia—but we already know his campaign sought collusion
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On Friday, special counsel Robert Mueller's team unveiled indictments against 13 Russian nationals in a wide-ranging, ambitious plot to undermine the integrity of the 2016 presidential elections. As any casual observer of the garbage fire in the White House eTrump is furiously tweeting about Russia—but we already know his campaign sought collusion
On Friday, special counsel Robert Mueller's team unveiled indictments against 13 Russian nationals in a wide-ranging, ambitious plot to undermine the integrity of the 2016 presidential elections. As any casual observer of the garbage fire in the White House expected, this led to a furious weekend-long tweetstorm from the conflagration masquerading as a president. His message: stop investigating. But before we get to that, a reminder: It was revealed last year that Donald Trump Jr. received an email in June, 2016 from a group of Russians seeking to talk about the U.S. presidential campaign. The offer was, in the text of the email: to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father. This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr Trump – helped along by Aras and Emin. Trump Jr.'s emailed response is now famous: «if it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer.» The top members of the Trump campaign arranged to meet the Russian team in Trump Tower, where the Russians delivered a folder of documents relating the Clinton campaign. When questioned on this meeting, Trump Jr. originally claimed it was to talk about Russian «adoptions»; we now know that wildly misleading statement was in fact authored by Donald Trump himself, on Air Force One. That act is now under investigation by Robert Mueller's team. With that reminder in place, let us now have a look at what Trump has been furiously tweeting, in the immediate aftermath of these new indictments. Read more