Breaking the irony meter

[flotsam]

In the E-mails the Russians "offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father." The truth is they never had such documents. They might just as well have offered them the Philosopher's Stone so they could transmute lead to gold and pay for the campaign. Both would be a fraud, a chimera but the Russians knew something else, they knew Donald Trump. They knew him for a flawed man with no morals and that nothing would delight him as much as helping support his need to project his flaws onto his opponent. So they offered that to the little boy who so desperately needed Daddy's approval. They stole his nose and like a two-year old they showed the tip of their' thumb between their' fingers and he believed it.

There is played and then there is played for a fool. This was the latter, but on turbochargers...

[Boxerfan]

1. Very good take on the Russians v Donnie 2 scoops

And

Welcome to DU albeit a bit late.

[mercuryblues]

2. No he wasn't played

He went in there with his palm out. He has dealt with the Russians enough to know what is up. He bragged about all the Russian investments into the family business.

We only have his word that what the Russians offered up was no good.

Let's see how reliable his word is

He denied the meeting, until there was no way to deny it.

Then he lied and said it was about adoptions

Now we are supposed to believe they gave him incoherent info? He is lying about that too.

The next day daddy was pushing he was going to reveal Clinton's crimes. Then the emails started leaking.

[flotsam]

3. We kinda agree

There WERE no "crimes" and that is what they dangled for his buy in. They gave them e-mails but there was no smoking gun there. The only smoking gun was Jr agreeing to accept dirt from the Kremlin. If that's not being played I don't know what is.