Ben Wittes Says Trump Calling on Russia to Release Hillary’s Emails Was Collusion

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WITTES: "Because, you know, one thing that there’s no doubt that Donald Trump did was called in public on the Russians to release Hillary Clinton’s e-mails and take very public positions that were flattering of Putin personally and very friendly to Russia, even as you point out in the context of a Republican primary where that was really unorthodox. It has always been one of the great mysteries of the Trump campaign, why he did those things and to what extent there is private or nonpublic elements that might help explain it? And so at one level it’s completely unsurprising that Mueller’s people are asking questions about it. These are the questions that led us to think that there was something troubling in the Trump/Russia relationship long before we knew about it. Long before we knew about the Trump Tower meeting or George Papadopoulos or any of that. But it is really interesting to see that those are active lines of questioning."