re: Paul Manafort has ties to the Podesta Group

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What evidence do you have of trump connections to and collusion with Russian government. What evidence do you have of the voracity of the dossier? I hope it's compelling and in no way circumstantial, because you sure do seem to require direct physical evidence to say Clinton did something wrong.

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Oppo shops do oppo and parties and candidates hire oppo shops. I do ask for than a 1-case association to prove... prove what? You don't seem to want to come out and make a case.

As far as the case for Trump-Russian collusion, it starts with Trump Jr. seeking a meeting with someone claiming to have oppo from a an adversarial government attempting to help his father win his election. As far as the circumstantial evidence, the sheer number of connections is what makes the case seem strong from the outside - lots of lying about Russian ties and meetings and reasons for meetings, Trump signing a letter of intent for loan from a Putin bank, "hiring" Manafort for free (while Manafort was getting unsecured loans from a Putin bestie), not firing Flynn after knowing he'd been compromised by Russia, trying to remove Russia sanctions and failing to implement new ones, calling for Russia to release Clinton emails, Peter Smith claiming to represent the campaign in seeking those emails from hackers, parroting false RT & Sputnik stories published no where else, refusing to acknowledge the Russian attack itself. And on and on. It's too much.