"Now we are getting reports that the top officials in the Trump campaign met with a Russian lawyer who is closely tied to the Kremlin.   The smoke is getting thicker.  Even though Donald Trump Jr has now admitted the meeting took place, if all you read is Fox News, you don't hear much about it. "

Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer. Pretty much everyone with money or connections to money in Russia is "closely tied to the Kremlin" and Trump does business with Russians and other foreigners, so that alone is insignificant, just the NYT making a big deal about nothing. The NYT has flat out lied previously just to make Trump look bad, so it's not a reputable source for analysis on the subject.

And think about this: if the Russian government was able to successfully hack US computers, why would they risk sending some low level lawyer to collude with the campaign of a candidate who was believed to have no chance of winning? That's not to mention that Putin would be better off with Hillary as POTUS. 

The Russian hacking would have been to disrupt and spread doubt about the election, not to put Trump in office. And thanks to the actions of the NYT and other leftist US media, they seem to have succeeded.

"Beyond hacking and releasing true but damaging information, if the Russians spread false news items as some have alleged and the Trump campaign knew about it and helped them do it, that would be pretty close to treason."

You mean like the false story about golden showers that the Clinton campaign colluded with a foreign spy to produce?

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