Rick Fischer
Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read

A weak argument based on some facts beats no argument based on nothing. Of course our opinions are always subject to further developments, but that does not render them useless as they form from ongoing developments.

We are allowed to conclude the FBI never acquired the supposedly hacked computers for analysis, because it has been so reported and nothing has been presented to the contrary. We are allowed to draw conclusions from the total absence of any corroborating facts supporting the Russian hack story or the Trump collusion story. Always reserving ourselves if more facts emerge.

We are allowed to draw conclusions from the several documented instances of cooperation and coordination of the Democrats with Ukraine and Russia during the election, and the fact that these are not investigated, while hopeful conjectures about a yet to materialize possibility of Trump’s cooperation and coordination are raised to the level of an Independent Counsel. We can certainly pass a common sense judgement on the fairness of that unequal treatment. Any ordinary person would consider collusion to be equally wrong no matter which party was doing it.

The article asks us to evaluate the facts presented here and in the original document, and weigh them against the absence of facts from the other side. That is legitimate.

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