(08-07-2018 11:22 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Go ahead and investigate the primaries.

But so far that's not happening.

Quote:But there isn't even ample reason to speculate that the campaign was conspiring with the Russians. The only "reason" you can provide is that funds were used by the DNC to pay for opposition research,

Follow the money. That is enough to get you to investigate. So far there is no money to follow with Trump.

Quote:There's no evidence that Podesta/Clinton knew that the funds were being used to either hire a British intelligence officer, or use sources in Russia.

They knew they were being used for something. They didn't just pay money for nothing. What did they actually know and when did they know it?

Quote:That point right there is where the Trump campaign loses this battle - Don Jr. published the evidence that shows he knew that the Russian government would be supplying the oppo research.

But that gets you to collusion (which is not a crime) and not conspiracy (which is). Conspiracy requires that you actually get the information (which there is no indication that ever happened) or some other act in furtherance of some plan that was hatched in the meeting. What was the plan? And what was done in furtherance of that plan?