Objectively intelligent.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

You know that's not true. She is not describing evidence. She is characterizing evidence.

We knew he lied. Why he lied? Well, you and I can assume it was to cover up something illegal. (And when a judge says "cover up" in a sentencing decision, it's read as "cover up of something illegal." But even I cannot say that conclusively. He might've just lied to create confusion, to screw up the investigation.

A lot of what looks like Trump covering up criminal collusion is akin to Hillary scrubbing her server with a program that made recovery of much of the data impossible. It looks like a crime, but in actuality, it was mere avoidance of aggressive investigation by enemies. If you have a ton of documents and a pack of Javerts on your heels at every turn, trying to sink you, limiting your paper trail only makes sense. (They're sure to find something at least embarrassing, and use it.)

Trump is driven by ego, and the suggestion Russians gifted him an election he'd have otherwise lost clearly drives the man insane. Stone is a fool who loves media attention and willingly went before Congress. And many of Trump's people are first timers in politics.

It's every bit as plausible that there was nothing to criminal cover up here... that Trump was stonewalling to protect his fragile belief he won "hugely" and fairly, the same way he stonewalls on his finances to protect the idea he's worth $10 billion. And Stone wants the spotlight, to play Trump's much lesser skilled Roy Cohn in the moment.

Berman said Stone was covering something up. Maybe she is right. But it's probably something that was not a criminal conspiracy but instead a fragile President. If she were more careful, more accurate, she'd have said "You were basking in the spotlight and playing protector for a political neophyte who feared an investigation because, being so unskilled in this arena, he couldn't be sure whether there had or hadn't been criminal activity."

Again, covering up a known crime and avoiding the discovery of facts that will make one look bad or perhaps turn out to be acts which could be prosecuted, are two very different things.

If the Trump people at the top resemble the Trump people one is seeing at the state levels in the run up to the 2020 election, this I can say without any caveats: These folks are not organized or savvy enough to pull off any type of criminal conspiracy.

Dude. Stop.

What you are saying does not hold water.