"Stu if you, or anybody else for that matter, come out with anything, on any topic that I know to be incorrect, I will point the error out and I will correct it"

Firstly, I was responding to Ake not yourself (although his post appears to have disappeared).

Secondly, I'm not sure why you're denying the Trump campaign's ties to Russian intelligence; Trump Jr. met with them hoping for dirt on Clinton, and there are plenty of other reports of equal;l veracity, and some parts of the Steele report are also true. This is accepted across the board, the question is how extensive these ties were. Fully expect a video or recording of Trump being pissed on by Russian call-girls to be leaked (geddit?) at some point.

From NBC: Yes, the Russia-Trump Investigation Is Real

Clinton's campaign might have put money into the publication of the Steele dossier, but this is not collusion with a foreign power; indeed the FBI were involved as well by all account. There's something odd about Trump's accusations over this as it looks like the Steele dossier might well be a legitimate document that Trump's corporate machine is trying to discredit; hard to do when the person slinging the accusations about is an utter liar and lacks any integrity. Anyone would have to be an idiot to trust him.

My (useless and probably poorly informed) opinion is what we are seeing here is a feud between the US state machine and political establishment against Trump and his allies. Trump is no politician, but a hustler who will do anything to get 'the deal' including lie and defame. His very presence in the White House is an affront to many people who are used to more respect from the Oval Office; Trump doesn't give a fuck about tradition/history/acting in a presidential fashion as he never has had to. Like many uber-capitalists (and we all know people in business who are like this) he will steamroller, cajole and act in as machiavellian a manner as needed to achieve his aims. He's fucked so many people off including some he should have had more sense to challenge so rashly, including the CIA and FBI.

Then common sense is an abstract concept to Trump.