It’s Story Time with Chris Hayes…

So here is what we are currently being asked to believe. 1/x

— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) July 13, 2017

A Putin-aligned Russian oligarch and his son cultivate a personal/professional relationship w/ Trump and his family over several years. 2/x

When Trump becomes the nominee, said oligarch uses trusted intermediary to tell Trump Jr there’s a Russain gov effort to elect Trump 3/x

And that as part of that effort they have damaging info on Hillary to share. They set up a meeting to collaborate on this project. 4/x

Trump’s son, his campaign chair and son in law attend a meeting w/ a person called a “Russian government lawyer” to obtain the dirt 5/x

Everyone shows up at the meeting and…the lawyer just talked about adoption and the Magnitsky act! After all that, it’s a dud. 6/x

And then, and here’s the crucial part, NO ONE DOES ANYTHING ELSE. The oligarch and son don’t make further contact. 7/x

Trump & Co don’t use the active line of communication thru Goldstone to say “hey what the hell was that about?” Everyone just drops it! 8/x

Both Trump’s campaign and the Putin-allioed oligarch never take another single step to further a collaboration they’d both agreed to! 9/x

And then, oh by the way, teh Russian government *is actually* engaged in a brazen, sophisticated effort to get Trump elected 10/x

And as that becomes public just 5 weeks later, no one at Trump Tower gets curious. No one reaches back out. No one calls Emin. 11/x

No one emails Goldstone about this topic ever again. No one brings it up ever again. 12/x

No one ever tells Trump “Aras and Emin said the Russian government wants to try to get you elected, but then we had this weird meeting” 13/x

No one ever raises it when they see DNC hacks & Wikileaks. Everyone just forgets about that crazy time, when dad’s Russian contacts 14/x

reached out to join forces with the Russian government to defeat Hillary. That’s it, That’s the end of the story. 15/x

I don’t have the words to express how implausible that version of events is, but it’s what the WH is currently telling us happened. 16/16