LoLz
From your article:
"The defendants allegedly conducted what they called information warfare against the United States, with the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general," Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said.
Mueller just announced Trumps innocence of collusion basically.
"In a statement, the White House said Trump was fully briefed on the indictment and "is glad to see the Special Counsel's investigation further indicates— that there was NO COLLUSION between the Trump campaign and Russia and that the outcome of the election was not changed or affected."
And I agree, all this does is clear Trump of any collusion.
I tend to agree, overall, but we really have to wait for the "Super Sized" lady to sing. These indictments do shed light on why Republicans have scoffed at the idea of collusion, especially if they had been duped into helping people working for Russia. The idea being, can you really be colluding with an agent of a foreign power if you don't know they are working as such?
@Valjean I hear ya. It does not excuse meddling in the election by the Russians, but it's not like the American government, over many Administrations, has not overtly tried to sway elections in foreign counties. It was practically part of several administrations foreign policy outreach. The point is, no, it is wrong for Russia to meddle in American internal affairs, but it is also wrong for American, over decades, to do precisely the same thing around the globe.
You gotta admire the audacity of the Russians, I'll give them that much. The indictments also put social media giants in an awkward position. By allowing their platforms to be used to such ends does not reflect well on them either, as they too, were duped.
All said and done, it was still pretty rich to hear Trump saying we had to get past Conspiracy Theories. LOL. My irony meter went off scale on that one.
