Absolutely. Undermining any independence at DOJ was a key element both to protecting the Trump Administration from consequences of its actions and further centralizing power in the Presidency.
Not really. When this whole “Trump works with Russia” thing started the major talk was suspicion that he had something to do with stealing the emails. I remember that well enough because I posted several times that the Russians didn’t need Trump’s expertise or permission to do what they did.
Both the fact that someone had to tell Papad… that the Russians had emails and the fact that some guy involved in entertainment in UK had to be used to set up a failed meeting show how ludicrous the dossier was when it talked about some system connecting information back and forth from Trump and Russia.
The real goal post change was when you all dropped that Trump had anything to do with secret connectons to Russia or with stealing the emails and went on ahead with stuff like he wanted them to release the emails.
I may do that sometime.
But, as I was asked to do many times, I accept the result of the Mueller report.
Memos aren’t proof. The largely anti Trump Mueller team had to go in and evaluate all these memos to reach their conclusion…no evidence of cooperation between the Trump campaign and Russia.
I see no need to try to second guess their decision with the same memos they had available. Is it likely we are in a better position to judge the whole than they were?