[chuckee]

I am trying to think of a crime for this. Attempted acceptance of a solicitation to freely provide negative facts on an opposing candidate from an individual who has no such facts and does not provide any in a 15 minute meeting. Seems to me the person showing up for the meeting could have been alleged “Trump cheerleader” Putin himself and we still do not have a crime unless a definitive quid pro quo of government favors can be proven.Oh, that’s right, he is not even an elected official and has no government favors to barter.Wasn’t this called campaign politics in the old days? Is there or was there ever a presidential candidate campaign staff in history that would not take such a meeting including Hillary and Obama? Now all of a sudden the DNC mouthpiece NYT is trying to attach a somethinggate to it.

[arthurus]

If any operative or acquaintance of any Trump can be alleged to have said "hello" to a suspected Russian-TREASON!!!! IMPEACH!!!!
When Paul Ryan chimes in then we will know they actually think they have something concrete. Heretofore they have not even suspected they had anything real. They are just keeping the hysteria going with the idea that all that manufactured smoke will convince the voters that there must be a fire there somewhere. If they can get his ratings down below 20% Ryan will probably call for impeachment no matter if they have anything or not. No criminal offense even has to be alleged. "Crimes and Misdemeanors" is left up to the Congress to define and can be the length of his tie. It is entirely a political process.