Jill Stein is making herself look more guilty in Donald Trump’s Russia scandal by the minute
Days after the Senate demanded that Donald Trump Jr. turn over any communications he may have had with third party candidate Jill Stein, her own response has served to cast suspicion on her. Instead of simply denying any involvement with Trump, or answering longstanding questions about her relationship with Vladimir Putin, she staged a ranting meltdown. And it turns out we’re not the only ones who see it that way.
The Senate didn’t make any accusations about Jill Stein in its letter to Trump Jr., and to the best of anyone’s knowledge, the Senate has not hassled Stein over her 2015 dinner with Vladimir Putin in Moscow. But that didn’t stop Stein from unloading with a rant in which she called the entire Trump-Russia investigation a “McCarthyist witch hunt” while accusing investigators of trying to generate a “fake news feeding frenzy.” As we pointed out earlier, Stein’s rant sounded like something Donald Trump would write (link). But now Joy-Ann Reid of MSNBC has something to say about the matter as well.
Joy Reid tweeted this question today on Twitter: “And where was Ms Stein in December 2015? Same place as Michael Flynn” (link). She then pointed out that “Stein’s views on foreign policy are even more aligned with Putin’s than Donald Trump’s are” while adding that “the Kremlin has always played a double game. They backed far right AND far left candidates in the Dutch, French elections etc.”
To be clear, aside from the photo proving that she sat at a dinner table with Putin and Michael Flynn in 2015, there is no known evidence that Stein colluded with Trump or Russia in the election. The problem here is that Jill Stein is making herself look guilty by trying to take a torch to thoroughly legitimate Trump-Russia investigation. At the least, she’s a material witness to what Putin and Flynn discussed during that dinner. If she’s innocent in this scandal that’s become a national crisis, it’s time for her to assist with the investigation instead of dishonestly playing politics over it.
