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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
There is no conspiracy. These idiots seeing one need a dictionary. A conspiracy involves people acting together. Trump is being acted upon, manipulated.
Putin is behaving in the way endless corporations and donors do in DC every day. They arm twist politicians with money and the fear of what their money given to a politician’s opponents can do.
Putin can damage Trump, just the same way a well heeled or corporate donor can any politician it wishes to. Putin’s actions are those of a power broker. The “conspiracy” our media has concocted (because common media consumers and many low information reporters like conspiracy stories) is identical to the relationship between powerful lobbyists and politicians. I’d say all Putin needs is an office on K Street. But he’s already probably got a dozen, through countless untraceable intermediaries.
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I think a conspiracy is much easier to show than this. For example, if you have Campaign official X arranging for Russian operative Y to work with Group Z to fund Republican operations benefiting the campaign, you have a conspiracy.
Of course, X = Manafort, Y = Butina, and Z = NRA. Surprise!
Not every conspiracy is a Manchurian candidate.
