re: #54 sagehen
Ever see “To Catch a Predator”?
When those guys show up to the house, there’s no 15-year-old to have sex with. But they’re arrested anyway, for hoping/planning/expecting that there would be.
True, but what is pissing me of is how quickly the vacuous spin of the right always gains traction. Even just using the soundboards gives it weight and gravitas. The truth is he met with a Russian lawyer with the expectation of gaining illegally obtained information, which is, as you said a crime. But the twitterati act as though failed collusion is a thing, it not.