The following is a comment I made to a post by Gregg Jarrett of Fox News on the Fox News Opinion page.
Thank you, Jarrett, for this
explanation. I have been wondering for a long time what this
"collusion" was. And what did the Russians do? What was it that was
meant to affect the outcome of our elections? Was there, in fact,
anything?
Thinking
this over, the only entities that made direct statements about Trump, his
campaign, his staff, etc. that was meant to influence the election were MS
media, the NYT, and the WaPo. Are they, then guilty of interfering with our
national election? Or with the primaries?
Only
one group of persons that I have noticed has tried to overturn the outcome of
an election, and that was in the primaries. Consider: the Republican voters
cast ballots to elect persons that would be committed to vote for Trump on the
first nomination ballot (at least). But they were attacked, pleaded with, and
even the targets of death threats by ... the far left and Democrats! They were
pushed to vote for someone else (anyone but?) when they were legally elected to
be legally bound to vote for Trump. (Aside: well, mostly. There are some
jurisdictions that are allowed to change their vote if they wish to, for some
reason or other. But that was very few of them.)
So
where is the illegality? I sat and listened to Comey tell us all the statutes
Hillary had violated in her campaign, and then heard him (an investigator
charged with finding out facts) ignore the fact that the statutes don't require
any kind of intent, just actions that are proscribed, make a judgment that
wasn't his responsibility to make, that she "had no intent to violate the
law" and therefore, should not be charged and brought to trial.
So,
I say, Trump staffers may have talked with Russian counterparts (which may well
be within the scope of their duties they were to assume or had already assumed
at that point) but SO WHAT? After all, with tongue in cheek, they were only
discussing "their grandchildren."
What
a world!
