Obama amb to Russia RESPONDS to accusations he CONSPIRED with Russian lawyer!

by SooperMexican

IN order to defend el Presidente Trumpo’s regime from the not-terribly-intelligent actions from Trumpy Junior, his less-than-intelligent supporters have latched on to a conspiracy theory that Obama paid off that Russian lawyer to entrap Trump’s dumb son.

Here’s their evidence:

DUN DUN DUNN!!!! There’s your Russian collusion!! Arrest OBAMA NOW!!

Man, I wish that were the case. As usual, the truth is so mundane compared to the conspiracy theory.

ut the truth, which those discussing the photo typically either played down or ignored altogether, was more innocent. The photo of McFaul and Veselnitskaya did not show the two “hanging out” with each other — it’s of a Congressional hearing, open to the public, at which McFaul testified. Veselnitskaya was sitting in the audience, in the row behind McFaul. McFaul told CNN this week that he had no control over who attended or where they were seated, that he had never met with Veselnitskaya and that he only learned her name this week.

“It’s ridiculous,” McFaul said. “It’s silly. And I think it shows the desperation in a world where facts don’t matter. That’s the part that bothers me as an academic and American. Basic facts don’t seem to matter in these debates.”

Yeah. Kinda.

Oliver Darcy at CNN relates how the story unfolded among Trump’s most zealous defenders:

This week’s theory was given its first sparks of life on Monday, when Mark Corallo, a spokesman for President Trump’s outside counsel, pointed to Veselnitskaya’s loose ties to the firm that produced the infamous Russia dossier — that firm had worked for a law firm which represented a company for which Veslnitskaya worked — and suggested they were relevant to discussions of Trump Jr.’s meeting with her.

Soon after, Trump supporters discovered and began to circulate a photo on Twitter of Vesenlitskaya with Michael McFaul, who was US Ambassador to Russia under President Obama. The image was picked up by the Gateway Pundit, a far-right website, which characterized the picture as evidence of Veselnitskaya “hanging out with Obama officials just days after her meeting with Donald Trump Jr.” Hours later, far-right Internet personality Mike Cernovich posted a video on Twitter in which he used the photo, in part, to ask whether Veselnitskaya was a “Democratic plant” who was sent to “wire tap Trump Tower.” That video had been retweeted more than 15,000 times as of Friday afternoon.

But the story really grew legs when it landed on the Drudge Report, which often acts as the de-facto assignment editor for right-leaning media. The website linked to the Gateway Pundit’s post, giving it the headline, “PICTURED WITH OBAMA AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA.”

On Wednesday, conservative talk radio king Rush Limbaugh told his national audience that he believed Veselnitskaya was part of a “setup” targeting Trump. Fox News host Sean Hannity also questioned on his radio show why Veselnitskaya was seen pictured with McFaul, telling his audience there was a picture of the two “in existence,” as if it was damning evidence.

So they’re willing to believe collusion between McFaul and the lawyer because she sat behind him once, in full view of the public, while they were being recorded on camera, but they don’t believe collusion in a secret meeting between Trump Jr. and other associates with that same lawyer, in private, after months of their lying about it.

LOCK HIM UP!!!


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