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Senator John McCain (R-AZ) made headlines this week, promising more bombshells and shoe-drops in the interminable Russia scandal engulfing media coverage of the Trump presidency.
The octogenarian lawmaker and Trump critic who actually agrees with Trump over 90 percent of the time mentioned shoes dropping on at least three occasions after Donald Trump Jr. released an email chain detailing how he came to be acquainted with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
As the belabored media and so-called “resistance” discourse nonsensically focuses on Trump Jr.’s alleged crimes viz. the Veselnitskaya meet-and-greet, let’s take a look back at when John McCain himself sought the help of a foreign spy in order to damage president-elect Donald J. Trump.
Briefly, the dossier began as an item on the wish-list of one of Trump’s GOP primary rivals who contracted a former British spy to put it all together based on rumors of scandalous Trump adventures in Moscow.
As the primary drew to a close, the dossier morphed into a prize sought by an unnamed client associated with the Democratic Party. Its contents were compiled, but went nowhere, so the ex-spy presented his findings to the FBI, who weren’t particularly interested.
Eventually, the broad strokes were leaked to journalist David Corn. And finally, whispers of the entire package’s availability made their way to McCain’s ears at a security confab in Canada on November 18, 2016.
McCain was quite nearly able to express sustained excited emotion at the possibility of salacious dirt surfacing about the man who disparaged his time at the Hanoi Hilton. So, the war-loving senator immediately sent a “trusted emissary” to obtain the dossier in its entirety. And, after mutedly staring at its pages for a few days, the once-and-never maverick turned all of its urine-splashed-and-centric contents over to then-FBI Director James Comey.
(The convoluted construction of the pee tapes dossier is outlined in full here by the Guardian.)
So, what separates John McCain’s admitted collusion with a foreign intelligence professional from Donald Trump Jr.’s fruitless meeting with a Russian attorney? Nothing really.
To be clear, it’s exceedingly unlikely that Donald Trump Jr. committed any sort of chargeable offense by meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower and it’s less likely he’ll be charged with anything even if he did break the law. But if Trump Jr., “high-quality person” that he is, broke the law, then so did John McCain.
If Trump Jr. Committed a Crime, So Did McCain When He Sought Dirt From Foreign Spy
The octogenarian lawmaker and Trump critic who actually agrees with Trump over 90 percent of the time mentioned shoes dropping on at least three occasions after Donald Trump Jr. released an email chain detailing how he came to be acquainted with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
As the belabored media and so-called “resistance” discourse nonsensically focuses on Trump Jr.’s alleged crimes viz. the Veselnitskaya meet-and-greet, let’s take a look back at when John McCain himself sought the help of a foreign spy in order to damage president-elect Donald J. Trump.
Briefly, the dossier began as an item on the wish-list of one of Trump’s GOP primary rivals who contracted a former British spy to put it all together based on rumors of scandalous Trump adventures in Moscow.
As the primary drew to a close, the dossier morphed into a prize sought by an unnamed client associated with the Democratic Party. Its contents were compiled, but went nowhere, so the ex-spy presented his findings to the FBI, who weren’t particularly interested.
Eventually, the broad strokes were leaked to journalist David Corn. And finally, whispers of the entire package’s availability made their way to McCain’s ears at a security confab in Canada on November 18, 2016.
McCain was quite nearly able to express sustained excited emotion at the possibility of salacious dirt surfacing about the man who disparaged his time at the Hanoi Hilton. So, the war-loving senator immediately sent a “trusted emissary” to obtain the dossier in its entirety. And, after mutedly staring at its pages for a few days, the once-and-never maverick turned all of its urine-splashed-and-centric contents over to then-FBI Director James Comey.
(The convoluted construction of the pee tapes dossier is outlined in full here by the Guardian.)
So, what separates John McCain’s admitted collusion with a foreign intelligence professional from Donald Trump Jr.’s fruitless meeting with a Russian attorney? Nothing really.
To be clear, it’s exceedingly unlikely that Donald Trump Jr. committed any sort of chargeable offense by meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower and it’s less likely he’ll be charged with anything even if he did break the law. But if Trump Jr., “high-quality person” that he is, broke the law, then so did John McCain.
If Trump Jr. Committed a Crime, So Did McCain When He Sought Dirt From Foreign Spy