Trump tweets that his son took the meeting at Trump Tower with Russian operatives to get opposition dirt on Hillary Clinton, and the President asserts that that’s not illegal.

Entering a conspiracy with a foreign government to hack the opponent’s email to obtain damaging information about the opposition candidate is illegal.  Sorry, Mr. President. That’s illegal.  Remember that whole break-in to the Watergate hotel thing? 

But the media doesn’t appear to be understanding what took place, and why they claimed initially that the meeting was about adoptions.  Both statements are actually true, the meeting was to enter a conspiracy where the Russians would give the Trump campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton in return for the Trump administration lifting sanctions on Russia – sanctions is communicated by the code word: “adoptions.” 

The issue with US-Russian adoptions is that adoptions were ended as part of sanctions placed on Russia.  So when the Russians are talking about opening adoptions, this is their code word – construct – for communicating the lifting of sanctions…

“If you help us with “adoptions” comrade, we can help with you with “information” which we happen to come by.”

So everything they’re saying about the meeting is true.  The Russians arranged a meeting to discuss forming a conspiracy in which the Russians would provide dirt on Hillary Clinton to the Trump campaign in return for lifting of sanctions (“adoptions”) by the Trump administration.

Don Jr. said he was invited to the meeting to get dirt on Hillary, Don Sr. says so as well, and they both said that the actual content of meeting was about lifting sanctions (“adoptions”) and that no direct dirt was obtained at the meeting (but an agreement was made; dirt for lifting of sanctions; “Yes, we agree in better relations, and we want to remove “barriers to adoptions”/(“lift the sanctions”).

The current President of the United States conspired with a foreign government for that government to hack the opponent’s email and provide the Trump campaign with damaging information about the opponent candidate, in return for lifting of sanctions once Trump assumed office.

Sorry, Mr. President.  That’s not normal, even in politics.  That’s not how political opponents generate opposition research.  You and your clowns were neophytes in the political world.  Putin is a KGB agent.  Manifort is a Russian KGB operative placed into your campaign.

You ignoramus buffoon.  Of course it’s illegal to conspire with a foreign government to hack into the opponent candidate’s email… “Hey Russia, if you can find any of Hillary’s missing 30,000 emails I’m sure you’ll be rewarded… by the press (by my administration).”

Traitor.

Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, PSY 18857