If the Trump Campaign Didn't Collude With Russia, It Wasn't for Lack of Trying

Trump Jr.'s admission here is remarkable. Donald Trump's tendency to speak unwisely remains one of his greatest weaknesses--his threat to release apparently fictive tapes resulted in a special-counsel investigation that has rocked his still-young presidency--and his children are a chip off the old block. (Eric Trump has admitted, contra claims of separation, that he continues to talk business with his father.)

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It is, of course, entirely possible that Veselnitskaya was simply freelancing: Despite her extensive Kremlin ties, she has been a long-time campaigner against the Magnitsky Act, and maybe she was acting on her own, bluffing about the Clinton material. The problem for Trump is that this first suggestion of real collusion comes after a mountain of other circumstantial evidence