Trump engaged various countries, including Canada and the EU, to negotiate tariffs before sending Steve Witkoff to Moscow. Witkoff's ability to secure a reasonable deal with Russia is questionable, given his past failures. Redactions in classified documents, particularly in the Durham appendix, are designed to mislead readers. The aim is to create a narrative that the draft memo implicating Hillary Clinton is part of a series of documents, manipulating perceptions surrounding the relationship between Clinton, Trump, and the narrative of a conspiracy involving Russian operatives.
After making Canada, Japan, Vietnam, and Switzerland go to the US and making the EU go to Trump's golf course in Scotland to negotiate tariffs, Trump sent his real estate developer buddy, Steve Witkoff, to Moscow to negotiate tariffs with Vladimir Putin.
Consider just this redaction in the classified Durham appendix that Chuck Grassley released last week. The redaction is designed to fool readers in several ways.
First, it helps to sustain a fiction that the draft SVR memo purporting to report Hillary Clinton approving a plan to smear Donald Trump is the first document in a series, and not the last.
After this Deep State email, Russian spies talked about "mak[ing] [something]" - that is, fabricating emails - to "illuminate" how Clinton wanted to "vilif[y]" Trump and Putin.
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