Coons: Either Trump Colluded With Russians, Or Surrounded Himself With People Who Did

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Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, laid out a bleak picture for President Donald Trump when analyzing the ramifications of the indictment and arrest of Roger Stone.

“Either President Trump himself was actively involved in collusion with the Russians to undermine our 2016 election, or the President surrounded himself on his campaign with a whole circle of people who have now been charged with being actively engaged in criminal activity,” Coons said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

“Door number three, where the Mueller investigation is nothing more than a witch hunt and will fail to produce any substantive outcome or indictments, is clearly closed.”

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  1. I’ll take “all of the above” for $500, Chris.

  2. It’s Not either/or - it’s BOTH

  3. “Colluded” is such an ugly word, Senator Coons. People of rare taste and breeding like Donald Trump prefer the word “conspired”.

  4. Methinks this is happening…

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