collaboration issue, primarily because it's always been explicable why Russia would favor Trump as outsiders w/o connection to his campaign. The media has been really loose too and published a lot of nonsense that I feel like ultimately created a smokier vibe than the content justified. Some of that stuff may look better at the end of this, but a lot of it was crap.

This moves the needle for me though, and arouses a suspicion beyond Manafort and potentially shady business dealings and Flynn's contract work and/or relationship with Russia. Even Flynn's behavior (from what I know), while I definitely don't condone it, was explainable on a not un-American level. He sees war of civilizations, Islam v. (nominally) Christian West, and had views on Syria that chaffed with other high ranking officials. If his behavior was wrong, it was not provably linked to Trump and wasn't like he was intending to defect or aid Russia beyond his view of US interests imo.

[Post edited by hoodeyo at 07/11/2017 5:34PM]