Are we seriously still peddling this?? I am not a Trump fan, but anyone still claiming Trump colluded with Russia to meddle in the election deserves ridicule.
The MSM was "Russia, Russia, Russia" non-stop. Maddow did over 70 straight nights with collusion conspiracy. And the worst that all the massive 2+ year investigation could find was that possibly Manafort may have passed campaign polling data to a former Russian colleague?
I realize we're hijacking the thread and I don't want to get into a long drawn-out tussle over this here. My major point is that these allegations weren't loony and they aren't the reason for divisiveness today, as much as BayArea would like us to believe. I've heard people compare this to QAnon, and they're not even in the same ballpark.
Here's more from the Senate Intelligence Committee headed by Marco Rubio (not Rachel Maddow or MSM):
Manafort, who was later convicted for financial fraud crimes, briefed Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik on the campaign's polling data and how the Trump campaign sought to beat Hillary Clinton in the presidential election.
Manafort's connection with Kilimnik was a "grave counterintelligence threat," the report reads, adding that it found evidence the Russian intelligence officer may have been linked to the Russian government's efforts to hack and leak Democratic Party emails.