Trump meetings have so far been found to be completely normal interactions. Democratic interactions on the other hand? Not so much…
Via Townhall:
Katrina Vanden Huevel, The Nation’s publisher and editor, was pleased that Michael Flynn resigned over misleading the vice president over his discussions about Russian sanctions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The discrepancy was discovered when transcripts from his conversation with Kislyak were leaked to the press. It wasn’t necessarily that those discussions were illegal. They were not, but misleading the vice president is an offense that should end with you being shown the exit. Yet, Vanden Huevel noted that Democrats’ Russian obsession, the incessant quest to find collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence, and the hope that one of these meetings have a smoking gun where they can pin blame on the Trump-Russian connection for Clinton’s failed campaign is nothing more than “neo-McCarthyite furor.” In short, Democrats and even some members of the media seem to think that any meeting Trump aides have had with the Russians is tantamount to subversion. It’s not.
On Sunday, CNN’s John King aptly noted the ludicrousness of this whole scenario. For starters, he noted that Kislyak did his job. He met with Trump’s staff, these people could be aides to the next president of the United States since by late spring, it was clear that he was going to be the GOP nominee. There is nothing wrong about that. In fact, members of Congress meeting with foreign officials are not unusual occurrences either. Given that, why not say you met with the Russians months prior to Election Day on matters that are not unusual? King noted that such an admission would not be viewed as an illegal act; this is part of the business.