@Cal Mooney: “their only topic that they deemed newsworthy was attacking Trump on Russia links that have so far showed zilch”

34 people indicted or plead guilty in the investigation. 26 Russians, including 12 GRU officers. 3 Russian companies. 6 former Trump advisors indicted, 5 plead guilty.

Is this the “zilch” you referred to?

@Seán Ó Briain: Sorry mate, have you ever heard of 6 degrees of separation? I bet I could find links between you and a foreign intelligence operative of any country. One of those Russians indicted did turn up to a court hearing and the case was immediately dropped. Anyway, going back to the McCatheyism comparison, I am sure Hillary and every rich Democrat and Republican could be found to have been played by lobbyists from one regime or another. How much do the Israelis pay to influence elections in the US. How much do the Brits pay. They are all the same.

@Cal Mooney: he lied he said he had no business interests or contacts with Russian while campaigning at the same time trying to build Trump Moscow .

@Cal Mooney: “Sorry mate, have you ever heard of 6 degrees of separation?”

Six degrees of separation? They are his foreign campaign aide, security advisor, head of his presidential campaign, his lawyer who lied about Trump’s financial interests in Russia and his advisor who lied to the house intelligence committee about trying to collude with wikileaks.

This isn’t six degrees of separation. These are his closest political aides.

@Cal Mooney: we are not talking “6-degrees of separation” here

We are talking about direct contact and face to face meetings and then subsequently denying the meeting or contact ever happened to the FBI and then pleading guilty when indicted.

37 people and entities have now been charged by Mueller, including 6 associates of Trump: Michael Flynn, Rick Gates, Paul Manafort, George Papadopoulos, Michael Cohen, and Roger Stone. Mueller has brought 199 total criminal charges in all.

@Cal Mooney: he’s a ruski alright. Lock him up or send him back to the gulag to his own.

@Seán Ó Briain: Do you even know what the initial allegation was?! It wasn’t an improper payment to a pornstar or a tax issue. Also, re the Russian indictments, they mean nothing as he will never get them in court. How convenient for Mueller! The Russian investigation is a damp squib. The real crime is how the deep state attempted a coup against an elected president.

@Diaspora’d: We can go through each one if you want. They all amount to nothing when it comes to the initial allegation. Pick one there..

@Jack Simpson: Clinton’s impeachment started out as an investigation into real estate deals (whitewater) in Arkansas ended up with perjury about Monica Lewinsky, that how these special investigations can go.

So Just like the Ken Starr investigation morphed, this Mueller investigation morphing from Russian interference into money laundering and or obstruction of justice is not beyond possiblity

@Diaspora’d: So what you are saying is that if you dig deep enough into any party member in the states, you will find something. Maybe not what you wanted to find in the first place, but definitely something. Funny that considering there is no law preventing anyone paying millions to any elected representative to convey the message they want e.g. AIPAC

@Cal Mooney: No law? There are numerous Campaign Finance laws, for Federal elections and numerous ones for State elections.
There are also IRS/Tax laws governing what is and isn’t allowable. Fall foul of them at you peril. Remember Democrat VP contender John Edwards?

I’m of the opinion that campaign finance reform is necessary but you cant claim there are “no law” for campaign contributions or financing

@Cal Mooney: I distinctly remember during the Obama administration Fox News and the Republican Party attacked Obama for literally anything. They ragged on him for wearing a shirt with a tie in the Oval Office rather than a suit jacket, and bemoaning Obama for what he ate in a sandwich once, that’s way more petty than anything CNN has accused Trump of doing I’m not taking sides but it’s hypocritical for republicans to complain about Democrats being petty to the president when they did the exact same thing when the shoe was on the other foot.

@Jack Simpson: poor Jack, do you understand how am indictment is achieved? A grand jury has to believe there is sufficient evidence to issue it. It’s not like Mueller can just wrote them up and announce them.

@Jack Simpson: deep state give it a break and put your tinfoil hat back on

@Dot Com: you need to control the media for that type of outrage lol

@Ciarán O’ Donoghue: in fairness we are fairly comfortable with a few pints onboard. Fair comment.

@Ciarán O’ Donoghue: I’d rather we be a trustworthy people with a liking for drink than an untrustworthy sober people there the worst. Plus he looks like an evil Keebler elf for god sake he can’t call anybody names

@Winston Smith: Nope, I am talking about your thinly veiled racism.

@Bryan Yelahw: and I’m talking about your unveiled childishness, lack of ability to apply logic, and general stupidity. In fairness I should’ve realised you’d struggle to understand that, so it’s my fault really.