One of the patterns apparent from what we’ve seen of the Mueller Report is that the Russians had the good sense to run the election-tampering operation themselves and relegate the Trumpkins to the role of supporting mooks (still complicit, but in less glaring ways than the core operatives on the Russian side).
For clandestine operations, paranoia is a positive. “Need to know” is the standard, you don’t include any more knowledgeable conspirators than absolutely necessary. As a result, I don’t believe it is at all likely the Il Douche, himself, was an actual conspirator. Putin is a veteran KGB spook, no way, no how, does he willingly include a shit-for-brains motormouth as a co-conspirator!
The term “useful idiot” is itself a Russian invention.
You don’t get to have it both ways on, “Collusion is not a crime.”
Hey furt, can I trouble you to return to the thread and address this.
You posted this…
I responded with this excerpt from the Mueller report…
Is it your contention that this interaction not only is not cooperation, but that no reasonable person could view this as cooperation?
Re: Durham’s recent appointment to special counsel.
As the eternal optimist, I’ll just note that whereas the Rosenstein->Mueller scope of work statement strongly restricted Mueller from investigating Donald Trump, the Barr->Durham scope of work statement completely allows it and would save Biden from seeming corrupt if Durham shows that, for example, Donald Trump interfered in the 2016 election investigations.