As collusion case collapses, Democrats seek obstruction
By Buck Sexton, opinion contributor — 03/04/19 10:00 AM EST
For two years, most of the national news media have been building the case that Donald Trump somehow colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election. Countless editorials, roundtables, and expert segments all fed the perception that “Russia collusion,†an imprecise narrative shorthand for a nonexistent offense, would inevitably be proven. The left promised the puppet of Vladimir Putin would get his comeuppance in due time.
The problem is that this was all a lie. The biggest anti-Trump “bombshells†on Russia collusion reported so far have all been either duds or outright fakes. The special counsel has yet to, and almost certainly will not, file any charges that prove Trump took part in Russia collusion. The overwhelming likelihood is that, at worst, the special counsel report will contain unflattering information about the president and some of his senior advisers.
Whatever Robert Mueller has, it will not be the coup de grace to end the Trump administration and avenge Hillary Clinton that the mainstream media has assured us was coming since November 2016. Now, with the investigation supposedly ending in a matter of weeks, if not days, the collusion theorists are scrambling to deal with this reality. In a sane world, a lot of prominent voices on the left, in both politics and media, would be held accountable for stoking such partisan mass hysteria. How can the same Democrats and journalists that have been alleging, without evidence, that the president of the United States is a criminal and a traitor now come to terms with the reality of the hoax they have perpetrated out of petty partisan spite?
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