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Amaryllis

(9,525 posts)
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 09:57 PM Feb 2019

"We were never going to find a contract signed in blood saying, 'Hey Vlad, we're going to collude'"

REgarding Senate Intel investigation:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-has-uncovered-no-direct-evidence-conspiracy-between-trump-campaign-n970536

snip

On Tuesday, Burr doubled down, telling NBC News, "There is no factual evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia."

Sen. Mark Warner, D.-Va., ranking member of the committee, told reporters in the Capitol Tuesday that he disagrees with the way Burr characterized the evidence about collusion, but he declined to offer his own assessment.

"I'm not going to get into any conclusions I have," he said, before adding that "there's never been a campaign in American history ... that people affiliated with the campaign had as many ties with Russia as the Trump campaign did."

Democratic Senate investigators who spoke to NBC News on condition of anonymity did not dispute Burr's characterizations, but said they lacked context.

"We were never going to find a contract signed in blood saying, 'Hey Vlad, we're going to collude,'" one Democratic aide said.

The series of contacts between Trump's associates, his campaign officials, his children and various Russians suggest a campaign willing to accept help from a foreign adversary, the Democrats say.

Lots more at link.

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"We were never going to find a contract signed in blood saying, 'Hey Vlad, we're going to collude'" (Original Post) Amaryllis Feb 2019 OP
I wonder Ani Yun Wiya Feb 2019 #1
Senator Burr bdamomma Feb 2019 #2

Ani Yun Wiya

(797 posts)
1. I wonder
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 12:02 AM
Feb 2019

Is Mr. Burr unaware of the material evidence of such communication, a copy of which one Carter Page kept for himself ?

bdamomma

(63,917 posts)
2. Senator Burr
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 12:06 AM
Feb 2019

just showed his true colours how much more evidence do they need. Maybe he needs to watch Active Measures to enlighten himself.

Unless he is in the mix.

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