ever since Donald Trump became
presidents there's been one question on
everyone's mind why what kind of God
would do such a thing no no the other
question that has been on everyone's
mind and that is did the Trump campaign
collude with Russia it's the subject of
investigations by the House the Senate
and the FBI but according to Trump's
people not only was there no collusion
they barely even know what a Russian is
did any advisor or anybody in the Trump
campaign have any contact with the
Russians who are trying to to meddle in
the election well of course not I did
not have communications with the
Russians are there any ties between mr.
Trump view or your campaign and Putin in
his regime no if there are not that's
absurd and you know there's no basis to
it every time Russia is brought up
there's no Trump why do I have to do
with it what I have to do with it don't
actually check it's a rhetorical
question but like by now we know that
that's not true one after another we
keep learning about more members of the
Trump campaign who did meet with
Russians during or after the campaign
but none of those meetings looked quite
as bad as the one we found out about
yesterday Donald Trump jr. now admitting
he met with a Russian attorney during
the campaign hoping to get damaging
information on Hillary Clinton and the
Democrats Trump jr. his brother-in-law
Jared Kushner and campaign Chairman Paul
Manafort met at Trump Tower in June of
last year with attorney natalia vest
Melanesia she is said to have ties to
Russia's government that's right Don jr.
Jared Krishna and Paul Manafort met with
a Kremlin linked Russian lawyer to get
dirt on Hillary Clinton you know what at
this point it would be easier if the
Trump people just told us which Russians
they haven't met with like I don't even
think Russian people hang out with this
many Russians
yeah no I have friends of all
nationalities why always Russians come
on it's called diversity broken man ever
hear of it yet of course not
now if you're looking for evidence of
collusion between Trump and Russia this
seems like The Smoking Gun
but jr. has a very different take I want
to read you a statement from Donald
Trump jr. and I quote I was asked to
have a meeting by an acquaintance who I
was told might have information helpful
to the campaign it quickly became clear
that she had no meaningful information
and she then changed subjects and began
discussing the adoption of Russian
children and mentioned the Magnitsky Act
it became clear to me that this was the
true agenda all along and that the
claims of potentially helpful
information were a pretext for the
meeting baby baby baby baby you don't
understand I only met with that other
woman because I thought she wanted turns
out she just wanted me to meet Jesus so
how you gonna go ahead and call me a
cheetah girl come on it is insane crazy
Donald juniors defense is that he tried
to collude but instead he got Russian
catfished like I don't care if you
believe that Russia colluded or not with
the trumps you have to admit that the
Trump team excuses make them sound
dumber and dumber
at every turn because first they said
they never met with Russians then they
said they forgot the meeting with the
Russians and they said oh we didn't know
those Russians counted and now they're
saying this Donald Trump jr. claims he
didn't know who he would be meeting at
the June 9th sit-down at Trump Tower but
he asked the campaign's chairman and a
top advisor to be there gotta hear man
that come on really really so some
random person shows up at Trump Tower
the front desk called up to John Donne
jr. and he was like hello someone's here
to see me oh boy
send them right up no I don't want to
know their name I love surprises
Jared Paul you gotta come see this no I
don't know who's in the meeting let's
just do it and be legends look man this
is honestly stupid it is incompetent and
it is dumb and the saddest thing is for
the Trump team the headlines today could
be about America's role in helping
finally drive Isis out of Mosul or it
could be about the Syrian ceasefire but
once again we're reminded that in a
world filled with Trump enemies the
worst enemy is themselves
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