April 18, 2019.The American political and media elites that spent the first two years of the Trump administration promoting the Russian collusion hoax have some explaining to do.
As Attorney General William Barr said on Thursday before releasing the Mueller report, "After nearly two years of investigation, thousands of subpoenas, and hundreds of warrants and witness interviews, the special counsel confirmed that the Russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes."
Yet nearly the entire complex of elite media was actively complicit in promoting the biggest political conspiracy theory in American history: that Hillary Clinton lost the election because Donald Trump conspired with Vladimir Putin to - well, that was always a moving target - but to somehow deprive Mrs. Clinton of victory.
Mr. Trump ran against American elites and their insular culture.
Shortly after Mr. Mueller concluded his investigation without any indictments related to Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, Representative Adam Schiff, now the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, did not admit he was wrong - far from it.
The problem is that the Mueller investigation, as Mr. Barr explained, "Did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes."
These are the people outside of politics, the people who couldn't wait to hear what Rachel Maddow had to say, who believed every breathless prediction on cable news that "New revelations could spell the end for Trump," and who shared these nuggets with a mixture of indignation and ecstasy on social media.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/opinion/barr-media-trump.html
As Attorney General William Barr said on Thursday before releasing the Mueller report, "After nearly two years of investigation, thousands of subpoenas, and hundreds of warrants and witness interviews, the special counsel confirmed that the Russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes."
Yet nearly the entire complex of elite media was actively complicit in promoting the biggest political conspiracy theory in American history: that Hillary Clinton lost the election because Donald Trump conspired with Vladimir Putin to - well, that was always a moving target - but to somehow deprive Mrs. Clinton of victory.
Mr. Trump ran against American elites and their insular culture.
Shortly after Mr. Mueller concluded his investigation without any indictments related to Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, Representative Adam Schiff, now the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, did not admit he was wrong - far from it.
The problem is that the Mueller investigation, as Mr. Barr explained, "Did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes."
These are the people outside of politics, the people who couldn't wait to hear what Rachel Maddow had to say, who believed every breathless prediction on cable news that "New revelations could spell the end for Trump," and who shared these nuggets with a mixture of indignation and ecstasy on social media.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/opinion/barr-media-trump.html
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