What to Make of This Week's Trump-Russia Revelations
September 22, 2017 at 1:11 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Ryan Lizza: We know that the Russians launched a cyber campaign to help Trump win. We know that the Trump campaign was willing to entertain assistance from the Russian government because Manafort, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump, Jr., eagerly met with a Russian offering such assistance. This latest news suggeststhough the reporting is still vaguewhat many people have long wondered: that Manafort may have been a crucial link between the Trump campaign and Russians seeking to defeat Hillary Clinton.
If Mueller or congressional investigators unearth proof that Manafort colluded with the Russians, it will fortify the narrative that the Trump campaign worked with a foreign nation to alter the outcome of an American Presidential electionan unprecedented event in the countrys history. Trump could dismiss the evidence, deny knowledge of the collusion, and dismiss the Mueller investigation as a witch hunt. But this weeks disclosures moved the theorizing about Trump and Russia one step closer to becoming a politically devastating blow to Trumps Presidency.
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