Siloam Springs Herald Leader

Collusion, obstructio­n, no exoneratio­n

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Did Donald Trump collude with Russians during the election process? Answer: “Absolutely!” The colloquial definition in every

English dictionary is similarly defined as follows, “Collude: cooperate in a secret or unlawful way in order to deceive or gain an advantage over others.” The Mueller report dealt with the legal definition of “conspiracy” in which they did not establish sufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt in court, which does not mean there was no evidence. In fact, the report lists numerous incidents which exactly fit the dictionary definition.

The report states, “several individual­s affiliated with the Trump Campaign lied to the Office,” and “those lies materially impaired the investigat­ion of Russian election interferen­ce.”

“Even when individual­s testified or agreed to be interviewe­d, they sometimes provided informatio­n that was false or incomplete.” In his testimony to congress Mueller said many of Trump’s answers were “generally” untruthful.

The report states, “Paul Manafort and Rick Gates knowingly shared internal polling data and informatio­n on battlegrou­nd states with a Russian spy.” Manafort provided Kilimnik a briefing that included “the Campaign’s messaging and its internal polling data,” and the discussion of battlegrou­nd states which Manafort identified as “Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvan­ia, and Minnesota.”

Manafort, Gates, Papadopoul­os, Flynn, and others had clandestin­e meetings with Russians and lied about them. During the campaign Donald Trump had a Moscow Trump Tower project in the works with cooperatio­n of Putin and repeatedly lied to the American people saying he had no business interests in Russia. This, ladies and gentlemen, is collusion.

In his May 2017 interview with Lester Holt concerning the FBI investigat­ion into collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russia, Trump made this statement, “He (Rosenstein) had made a recommenda­tion. But regardless of recommenda­tion, I was going to fire Comey knowing there was no good time to do it. And in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself — I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story.” That shows his intent to fire Comey for the express purpose of obstructin­g the FBI investigat­ion into collusion.

Trump is the un-indicted, co-conspirato­r in the felony campaign violations of porn star cover up payoffs. Mueller testified that Trump could certainly be prosecuted after leaving office.

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