Quid Pro Quo

Bloomberg broke the story yesterday (link here) that the Russian lawyer and Kremlin emissary who met with Donald Trump's son last year has revealed that he hinted to her that, if Russia provided dirt on Hillary Clinton, the Russian sanctions law could be reviewed if his father was elected.

Undoubtedly, the federal authorities conducting the criminal investigation into the President, his campaign, and his associates are paying close attention to this news. That's because offering quid pro quo favors like this are patently illegal.

Business Insider reacted to this revelation with an item (link here) titled "Trump campaign officials tried to swap access to Trump for favors from Russia at least three times."

For its part, The Washington Post ran an article (link here) with the title "At least nine people in Trump’s orbit had contact with Russians during campaign and transition."

Not to be outdone, The Chicago Tribune published a piece (link here) with the title "The Trump administration is up to its neck in Russians."

Hence, Donald Trump's repeated assertion that his campaign was not in contact with Russia and that any such report is "fake news" is a double-lie. Not only has contact now been documented extensively, collusion has also been repeatedly documented.

This once again proves that when Trump says something, more often than not the opposite is true.