WaPo: Documents Show Russians Sought Meetings With Trump Campaign...and Team Trump Declined  Guy Benson Posted: Aug 15, 2017

Regular readers know that I've been rather tough on Team Trump when their Russiagate spin doesn't add up.  In recent weeks, I've hit them pretty hard on the Donald Jr. story, and flagged additional problems for the Attorney General.  But my consistent, overarching theme on the Russia matter is that we ought to follow all of the facts and let investigators do their work.  When exculpatory evidence surfaces, that should matter just as much as when new information looks damning -- unless, of course, you have a pre-determined agenda, as seems to be the case with many in the press.  That said, good for the Washington Post to run with a story that disrupts the collusion storyline in which so many of their colleagues are heavily invested.  Email records prove that Russian government envoys tried to open private lines of communication with the Trump campaign, and were rebuffed:

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