The 2016 presidential campaign is being revealed to be a profound failure of American journalism. Really, it took this long to have the June 9, 2016 meeting Donald Trump, Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort had with a Russian lawyer revealed? Rob Goldstone, a known associate of Putin connected Russia oligarch Aras Agalarov arranged the meeting. Agalarov is well known to be a connected with Trump since they partnered on the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow.
Rob Goldstone had the June 9, 2016 meeting as a public Facebook post.
Every damn minutia of any Hillary Clinton related doing was presented as a potential scandal. I suspect American journalists were intimidated into not investigating Trump because of his rants on the campaign. The Trump-Russia dossier was circulating in newsrooms through the fall of 2016 and sure it contains some salacious details but some details have been confirmed. For example on February 10, 2017, CNN reported:
The corroboration, based on intercepted communications, has given US intelligence and law enforcement "greater confidence" in the credibility of some aspects of the dossier as they continue to actively investigate its contents, these sources say.
The important aspect of the Trump-Russia dossier was that the Russians were attempting to interfere with the presidential election. Of course the dossier references Agalarov and his associate has a meeting at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016 posted on his Facebook page. And all the investigative journalists in America failed to break the story until it was too late. Hillary Clinton was saying in presidential debates that Trump would be Putin’s puppet and here we are.