Originally the main purpose was to undermine and delegitimize the Wikileaks bombshells. As soon as Wikileaks started revealing malfeasance by the DNC and Hillary's campaign, they responded by saying Wikileaks was conspiring with Russia and got as far as making CNN claim it was illegal to possess Podesta's emails. It was only really going into the final weeks of the election and thereafter that it got twisted into undermining Trump, and throughout the 'winter of leaks' of '16-17 it became a full blown effort for the democrats to deflect from Hillary Clinton's loss and the blatant rigging by the DNC, to instead light a fire under Trump's ass.

One thing notably absent from this top-line summary is Wikileak's role in all this. As far as we've seen from other Mueller filings, Wikileaks never knowingly colluded with Russians and there is no evidence they knew for sure who Guccifer 2.0 actually was, only that they held the same suspicions everyone in America did- it was all over the media speculating at the time. But all the summary mentions is Wikileaks being one of the organizations the information was disseminated through. Now, it might be premature to say the absence of evidence is evidence of absence, but I'd imagine that if there was such a bombshell about Wikileaks, there would have been an indictment issued on whatever bogus legal pretext and it would have been mentioned in the report. So I think that's been put to rest, too.

How does that crow taste?

This post was edited by Zachary on Mar 24 2019 02:24pm

Yeah, he's eating so much crow. Especially after he was proven WRONG about his super duper strong anti-Trump position, like when he said:

oh look another election and math denier. Privileged lefties like this have privilege of never saying sorry or admitting fault

time to remove presidential term limits and allow the good guy Trump to rule for eternity, even as a head in a futurama jar when it becomes necessary
in Trump we Trust

I was never on the Russia train

I've openly said since the beginning I hope he is innocent and want him defeated from votes

I dislike Trump but I have no interest in wishing a guilty President on a country already on shaky political and social ground

Conservatives mistake my political and social leanings for a dislike of America but make no mistake I love this country, our country and I am very happy he is innocent for that reason

i wonder if the likes of CNN will ever set things right

Nope, but the damage has been done. I know so many people in my life that gave no fucks about politics like ever constantly talking about the Trump-Russia collusion. Years of disinformation and propaganda that divided the country and these assholes that lied and essentially published rumors as facts won't be held accountable.

This report is going to take him to 2024.