Will All The Name-Brand People Who Pushed The Russian Collusion Conspiracy Get Off Scot-Free?
The Russian collusion hoax has fallen apart more every day. And we havenât heard a word of comment from any of the people responsible for pushing it and helping fracture this country.
A year ago, the story dominating headlines was the allegation that President Donald Trump had colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election. The idea of impeaching President Trump due to these allegations was gathering steam, with accusations from elected officials and beyond that the president of the United States was a Russian puppet, a Manchurian candidate installed by Vladimir Putin, and even an agent of a hostile foreign power for the last 30 years.
You donât need to be a fan of Trump to be outraged about the Russian collusion conspiracy. But itâs a mark against your patriotism, your judgement, or your intellect if you arenât. Beyond just being perhaps the most defining political scandal of our time, the hoax gets under my skin because I fell for it. And Iâm enormously angry for having been duped.
Now that this narrative has been proven false and possibly influenced by actual Russian disinformation, it is time to revisit how it was created and dominated U.S. politics for so long, as well as demand justice for its perpetrators.
The âRussian collusionâ narrative first got its start shortly before the 2016 election, when John Podesta, chairman of the Clinton campaign, told reporters about an FBI investigation into the Trump campaign and suggested Trump was either âwillfully ignoringâ intelligence officialsâ warnings or acting âas an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.â
This accusation eventually became a central pillar of former Secretary of State Hillary Clintonâs campaign. She pushed the claim on social media, including never-verified allegations about a server connected to future President Trump that was supposedly tied to Russia, and called on the FBI to release information about any connection between Trump and Russia.
Her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, suggested Trump was a Russian puppet two weeks before the election. Even the FBIâs own findings from late October, announcing that, despite a months-long investigation, they found no clear links between Trump and the Russian government, couldnât throw any cold water on the allegations.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/13/will-all-the-name-brand-people-who-pushed-the-russian-collusion-conspiracy-get-off-scot-free/