Развитие идеи

К этому: идея, озвученная Каттнером, – про то, что collusion не нужен, – движется в массы.

Robert Mueller Doesn’t Need a Smoking Gun

Доказательства не нужны, импичить можно и так. Даром что ли мы тут полтора года страшные глаза друг другу делаем и разговариваем зловещими голосами? Накопилось столько намеков и статей про "coincidence? I don’t think so", что все понятно безо всяких доказательств. К тому же Трамп ведет себя подозрительно.

Уровень аргументации:

If Trump is innocent of any involvement with Russia’s activities he certainly hasn’t acted like it. One could list numerous examples, but to take a few: his admission that he fired FBI Director James Comey because of “this Russia thing”; his order last summer that Mueller be fired (headed off by his counsel, Don McGahn); his various attempts to spring former national security advisor Michael Flynn from a serious investigation; his frequent and often non-germane insistence, “No collusion”; his virtually barring his aides from bringing up Russia in meetings; his peculiar defenses of Vladimir Putin, of which the most head-snapping was, “We kill people, too.”

If Trump is innocent of any involvement, direct or indirect, in Russia’s activities to affect our election, why has the White House taken such an interest in the testimony of various figures before the congressional investigating committees? Why the strong reluctance of his lawyers to allow him to testify to the special counsel? Why has the president declined to implement the sanctions on Russia passed by overwhelming margins by Congress, so large that Trump had to sign it since a veto would have been overridden? The whole thing defies reason if the president wasn’t, as candidate or president, involved in, cooperative with, or at least approving of activities that abetted Russian interference in our election.

Каждый раз, как Арбат восхищается умозаключениями Якова или его интеллектуалов-комментаторов, я удивляюсь – чего б ему первоисточниками не восхищаться? В первоисточниках все то же самое появляется раньше, написано обычно более внятно, а диалог один черт никакой не возможен ни с теми интеллектуалами, ни с этими.

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