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[โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Russiagate is a made up conspiracy theory

US politicians are bribed lobbied all the time from all sorts of wealthy interest groups.

Fallacious reasoning. Either it is one or the other, not both. Why are you arguing in bad faith?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I never said these two things were related nor mutually exclusive.

I'll be more explicit.

Russiagate was a work of fantasy telling a story about a supposed Manchurian candidate, rather than admitting that the Democratic campaign made mistakes and that Trump spoke to genuine issues the US population has (of course without solutions but that's not the point here).

~~Bribes~~ Campaign donations and favours are given to candidates and office holders all the time by interest groups, companies, and wealthy individuals. A donation by JP Morgan or a Koch has nothing to do with the Russiagate fairytale.