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"Mr. Christie stated that the campaign was too disorganized and too messy to" run a Tom Clancy operation "and that he has never seen any evidence of collusion with the Russian authorities. "
What Christie argues here is that the candidate and the campaign he led were simply not sophisticated enough to eventually carry out a sort of large-scale collusion operation with the Russians . That they were too stupid, politically speaking, to get anything of that kind.
What is, a) intriguing b) insulting the Trump campaign and c) something I heard from people who were tangibly connected to the Trump campaign in 2016.
At this point, it may be that the best defense that Trump and his team have in terms of collusion charges – that it may have been worked by qualified Russian agents, but that they do not … have no idea and
Except that, now look at this meeting through Christie's lens suggests: That these people were simply incompetent. Trump Jr., who has never been involved in politics before, receives an email from a guy he knows who says the Russians have good negative information about Clinton. Trump Jr. takes the meeting, totally ignoring the potential dangers of a discussion with people with close ties to a foreign government during the presidential elections. In the end, it was nothing he hoped for – because he did not really do anything that was or wanted to meet the people he met – and he quickly ended the discussion.
Knowing what you know about Trump Jr., what do you think the most likely scenario is here? Honestly, I'm not sure about myself, but the idea that these people were row lovers who slipped into all sorts of unpleasant waters because they did not know what was wrong with them. they were doing it made a reasonable sense. 19659006] Now, this theory – call it the argument of incompetence – could steal for some people in Trump's orbit (including perhaps the president), but it's harder to sell for others. At the top of the list is Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman who, while he held this role at the head of the Trump campaign, spoke with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian related to the intelligence services of this country and shared survey data. . It's harder, at least for me, that Manafort, who was a politician and worked on races in foreign countries for decades, would not understand how these conversations could be viewed by an outside observer. In addition, Manafort has since been convicted of a series of financial crimes related to his work in Ukraine.
Christie's theory – these guys were not smart enough to hear – is not really the most flattering when it comes to the president and his family.
However, the special advocate that Robert Mueller found during his investigation of Russia's attempted interference in the 2016 election has been banning all smoke . Illegal coordination – which is essentially what we are talking about when we talk about collusion – is based on the knowledge of the agreement by both parties. If the Russians were actually active members of the Trump campaign and the people of Trumpworld did not know at all that they were working, it is not a crime.
"The argument of incompetence" is very depressing if we consider that many of these people – including the president of the United States – now run our government. But legally, it may well be the best defense that many people closely associated with the 2016 Trump campaign can offer.
