{"id":43449,"date":"2017-07-14T13:31:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T19:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=43449"},"modified":"2017-07-14T13:31:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T19:31:40","slug":"bungled-collusion-still-collusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/07\/bungled-collusion-still-collusion.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bungled Collusion Is Still Collusion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41489\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41489\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/04\/Moscow_Kremlin_8281675670.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41489\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-41489\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/04\/Moscow_Kremlin_8281675670-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"The Moscow Kremlin at night, on the river\" width=\"596\" height=\"400\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Kremlin in Moscow (Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I admit that, for one reason or another, I haven\u2019t closely followed the controversy over Trump campaign contacts with the Russians. \u00a0At first, the mere thought was shocking. \u00a0But then the supporting evidence seemed fairly vague, and I lost interest in monitoring every twist and turn. \u00a0Many in the news media, and many Democrats (emphatically including those who call themselves the \u201cResistance\u201d), have appeared to me to be yelling that the sky was falling so very often that their cries lost most of their\u00a0credibility.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0I\u2019m inclined to share Charles Krauthammer\u2019s sense that the matter has taken on new substance with this latest development involving Donald Trump Jr.:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/449481\/donald-trump-jr-emails-demonstrate-immoral-collusion\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/449481\/donald-trump-jr-emails-demonstrate-immoral-collusion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Honolulu, Hawaii<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I admit that, for one reason or another, I haven\u2019t closely followed the controversy over Trump campaign contacts with the Russians. \u00a0At first, the mere thought was shocking. \u00a0But then the supporting evidence seemed fairly vague, and I lost interest in monitoring every twist and turn. \u00a0Many in the news media, and many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Bungled Collusion Is Still Collusion&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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