The Left Distrusts the People
Kevin McCullough
From the very first day Joe Biden “took office,” there was a theme you could spot from a mile away: the Left doesn’t trust the American people. The now-infamous AutoPen moment—when Biden supposedly signed something important but never touched the pen—wasn’t just a glitch in optics. It was emblematic of a presidency constructed to appear functional, not be functional. It was a government more interested in control than connection. And it foreshadowed something far more dangerous.
We now know—without conjecture or spin—that the so-called “Russia collusion” narrative of 2016 was a top-down, White House-engineered fabrication. Not a misunderstanding. Not a misfire. A deliberate operation to undermine the legitimacy of a duly elected president and suppress the will of over 62 million Americans who voted for him.
We know this because declassified documents tell us the story plainly. In September and December of 2016, intelligence analysts across multiple agencies—yes, the same agencies Democrats insist are beyond reproach—found no evidence that Russia had tampered with vote tallies or changed the election outcome in any meaningful way. That should have been the end of it.
But instead, Barack Obama held a meeting on December 9, 2016, with a roster straight out of a political thriller: Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Rice—all present. From that meeting came the marching orders to produce a new intelligence assessment. Not based on new facts, not based on new evidence. But based on a narrative that Donald Trump’s presidency was illegitimate, courtesy of Vladimir Putin.
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