The Nation-
The real Russiagate scandal is the damage it has done to our democratic system and media.
RUSSIAGATE WITHOUT RUSSIA
The most fundamental element of a conspiracy is contact between the two parties doing the conspiring. Hence, on the eve of the report’s release, The New York Times noted that among the “outstanding questions” that Mueller would answer were the nature of “contacts between Kremlin intermediaries and the Trump campaign.”
Mueller’s report does answer that question: There were effectively no “Kremlin intermediaries.”
RUSSIAGATE’S PREDICATE LED NOWHERE
TRUMP TOWER MOSCOW HAD NO HELP FROM MOSCOW…
…AND TRUMP DIDN’T ASK COHEN TO LIE ABOUT
THE TRUMP TOWER MEETING REALLY WAS JUST A “WASTE OF TIME”
MANAFORT DID NOT SHARE POLLING DATA TO MEDDLE IN THE US ELECTION
THE STEELE DOSSIER WAS FICTION
THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN HAD NO SECRET CHANNEL TO WIKILEAKS
THERE WAS NO COVER-UP
It is too early to assess the damage that influential Russiagate promoters have done to their own reputations; to public confidence in our democratic system and media; and to the prospects of defeating Trump, who always stood to benefit if the all-consuming conspiracy theory ultimately collapsed. The scale of the wreckage, confirmed by Mueller’s report, may prove to be the ultimate Russiagate scandal.
ht/ marco
The damage done will only be ‘done’ if no one (namely obama, clinton and the rest of the scum downhill) is brought to justice for it.
How the hell does anyone believe Moscow Centre is the center?
It boggles the mind. Democrats are Marxists… and yet the Russians are the baddies. WTF?
Tearing down and hindering Trump were the primary motivations of the Russian collusion hoax.
Undermining our elections and the country itself were the latent functions.
So Mission Accomplished on 3 out of 4 fronts.
Cliche G — I prefer to think of this situation in terms of what will be helped by it. Let’s face it, it had to get very, very bad before anyone would sit up and take notice. This is now a scandal for the Left (and the bi-partisan Deep State, generally) that cannot be ignored, brushed aside — as ever much they are trying to — or not pursued by the DoJ. Barr signaled how he would deal with things like this before his nomination hearings.
The beautiful irony of it all is that our home brewed commies took themselves OUT with a conspiracy about… COMMIES !
Their first mistake was calling themselves “PATRIOTS”.
Karma is beautiful.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
a conspiracy requires more than one so it goes without saying that there are “co” conspirators. (It should anyway)
Whoever coined that phrase should be punished. Perhaps having to sit through all of my former english profs classes.
AA: Some of the public realizes what happened but they have not even begun to fight back yet.
It can be ignored because it is being ignored.
They have not acknowledged that there is any truth to it. Brennan is still going out and doing interviews and he will until he is locked up in jail.
There are two competing realities going on right now. One reality has yet to concede that this was a hoax and that impeachment is just a matter of will power and getting a couple of Romneys on board.
80% of Washington and 95% of the media will protect the status quo at any cost.
…and let’s talk about the Rachel Maddow photo at the top of this thread, and not pull punches. This angry, dysfunctional dyke has become the heroine of today’s left, the goddess of the leftist MSM. Be afraid, very afraid of her following, as we slip into identity PC, and do not take a strong stand against the perverse, lying, corrupt bullshit that this “thing” represents.
Maddow is the face of evil that the bible talks about.
The Russians may be an enemy, but they’re not the potentially lethal enemy within as America is slowly figuring out.
At least twice I read something like: “…Trump, who always stood to benefit if the all-consuming conspiracy theory ultimately collapsed.”. Makes me wonder why THAT is necessary in an otherwise decent article…… Wouldn’t the central character of ANY conspiracy stand to benefit, should that conspiracy crumble?
or am I missing something?
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Every time I see that face of hers, I think about MIB where the head splits open to reveal a little alien driving the bus (so to speak). After all, she is a vehicle for Propaganda!!
I want to find out when Robespierre Mueller knew conclusively that there was no evidence of Russian Collusion with the Trump Election Campaign. When did his Committee of Public Safety conclude that there was no there there?
@Marco, I suspect day one…