His recent timeline

Prince's story doesn't make much sense. He travels to the Seychelle Islands to meet folks from the UAE? He doesn't meet them in Dubai? And guess what, Kirill Dmitriev just happens to be at the same resort? He also claimed Nader wasn't there. If Nader was there and Mueller has already had him testify to the grand jury, then Prince is lying. Prince claimed not be working on behalf of Trump, but his unqualified sister is now secretary of Education which looks very much like a quid pro quo.

it seems to be ignored that Russia is a superpower, and that communicating w/ Russia is something that must happen.

This just isn't true. It wasn't true for previous administrations and it's illegal to talk policy until after Jan 20th. When Kushner asks for Russian communication gear, that is not setting up a proper back channel which is often a legitimate diplomatic thing. Instead this is attempting to talk to a foreign power without the US government knowing about it. The Seychelles meeting appears to be the same. And of course, there was all the lying about these communcations, Flynn, Kushner, Sessions, and others all lied about these contacts afterwards.

That entire thing has so many holes in it, it's crazy to put much faith into it. Paired with the fact that Don Jr released all of this own comms leading up to this meeting..

He only released them after he got caught lying over and over over about this meeting. And just because he released them, does not mean, they won't be a prime piece of evidence against him. His lawyers already had to turn over any documentation to Mueller, so he knew they knew this as well. Veselnitskaya was the point person trying to get US sanctions on Russia removed, again, if that was discussed, that's illegal.

So, just to be clear, you are stating that the leaks re: DNC and Podesta were orchestrated by Russia? And that Trump's org had advanced knowledge of this and worked directly w/ Assange?

Russia was certainly behind the hacking of the DNC and the spearfishing of Podesta and many, many other lesser know cases. The DCCC was hacked. Several former generals were hacked alongside 130 Democratic Party workers beyond Podesta, Voter registration rolls were attacked in like 20 states, Right before the election, voting software supplier was hacked the same spear-phishing emails that got Podesta were sent to over 100 local election officials just days before the November 8 election. The RNC was also hacked, but nothing was leaked from that.

I don't think the Trump org had advanced knowledge of this before the hacking occurred. But once Papadopolous met with his source in London, he reported back to the campaign that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of emails, they had knowledge the Russians had something. The Trump Tower meeting emails show us that the Goverment of Russia was providing "support for Mr. Trump" and that this support had been discussed previously with Don Jr.

The Crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting 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.

This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump - helped along by Aras and Emin.

Do I think the Trump campaign worked with Wikileaks. I don't know how direct this was, but it's been shown that Assange communicated directly with Don Jr and that Roger Stone communicated with Assange through an intermediary, a radio host named Randy Credico. Assange was also shown to reach out to Fox News to offer damaging info on senators involved in this investigation. It's pretty clear that the Trump campaign thought that Russia might have Clinton's deleted personal emails as Trump called on them publically to release them. There was also an effort by a Republican operative to try to reach out to hackers to buy Clinton's emails. The operative claimed to be working with Flynn, Bannon and Conaway on this.

Let me ask you this final question: [Hypothetical] What happens to the entire Russian collusion narrative if it turns out to be that these emails were actually domestic leaks and were not hacked by Russia/hacking groups connected to Russia?

Your hypothetical almost amounts to, if what happened in 2016 was totally different, what happens to your story? The technical evidence is overwhelming, that APT 28 and 29 were involved in the DNC hack and then we got word that Dutch Intel was watching this live. They had previously helped US fight off cyber attacks on the State Department and the White House as they were happening.

And the DNC hack still seems to be way too narrow a frame. The Russian interference in the election goes way beyond the DNC emails. There was a broad based hacking/spearfishing campaign, there was the social media campaigns or support for Bernie Sanders or Jill Stein. The hacked info from the DCCC ended up in campaign commercials in multiple states.

The other piece to all this added up, is we still don't know everything Mueller knows. We just learned he had a witness from the Seychelles meeting. He didn't reveal that. He probably has much, much more. People are saying that they are going to try to flip as many witnesses as they can so that they can use witness testimony and not counter-intelligence signals collections. Many of these foreign nationals are under routine surveillance by us and by other countries. A lot of this evidence is still not public yet.