I have been thinking about this constellation of ideas recently as the news has been full of talk about the "Russian collusion hoax." Use of the term "Hoax" got a big boost in the aftermath of the Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on the question of whether there was actionable cooperation, coordination, or collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
Two years, $34 million, and a wide swath of debilitating rumor, innuendo, and unrelated indictments and prosecutions later and we know that the answer to that question is "No, there was no cooperation, coordination, or collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin."
According to The American Heritage Dictionary, a hoax is "1. an act intended to deceive or trick" or "2. Something that has been established or accepted by fraudulent means."
On the contrary, it's often been used in concert with or as a synonym for "Hoax." But I think it is a better word in this context because it expresses the malign intention behind the multifarious activities directed against candidate Trump and then President Trump.
Remember how long it took before we learned that Steele had been paid by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary campaign, and that his dossier was not just "Unverified" and "Salacious," as James Comey put it, but was in fact nothing but a scurrilous piece of opposition research made up out of "Random" scraps of gossip that Steele had assembled from highly dubious sources? Nevertheless, it was the dossier, and nothing but the dossier, that provided the unverified "Evidence" for the supposedly "Verified" FISA warrants to spy on Carter Page, an American citizen, and hence to spy on the campaign and then the administration of Donald Trump.
Whatever happens to those individuals, it now seems clear that Barr's investigation will reveal for all to see that what began in 2016 or even 2015 and continued until and beyond the day that Robert Mueller deposited his nearly 500-page report clearing the president of "Collusion" was not a hoax at all.
The actions taken by the Obama Administration threatened not just Donald Trump and his presidency but the very processes and protocols by which the peaceful transition of power has been effected in the United States.
https://spectator.us/lets-call-the-russian-collusion-hoax-what-it-really-is/
Two years, $34 million, and a wide swath of debilitating rumor, innuendo, and unrelated indictments and prosecutions later and we know that the answer to that question is "No, there was no cooperation, coordination, or collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin."
According to The American Heritage Dictionary, a hoax is "1. an act intended to deceive or trick" or "2. Something that has been established or accepted by fraudulent means."
On the contrary, it's often been used in concert with or as a synonym for "Hoax." But I think it is a better word in this context because it expresses the malign intention behind the multifarious activities directed against candidate Trump and then President Trump.
Remember how long it took before we learned that Steele had been paid by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary campaign, and that his dossier was not just "Unverified" and "Salacious," as James Comey put it, but was in fact nothing but a scurrilous piece of opposition research made up out of "Random" scraps of gossip that Steele had assembled from highly dubious sources? Nevertheless, it was the dossier, and nothing but the dossier, that provided the unverified "Evidence" for the supposedly "Verified" FISA warrants to spy on Carter Page, an American citizen, and hence to spy on the campaign and then the administration of Donald Trump.
Whatever happens to those individuals, it now seems clear that Barr's investigation will reveal for all to see that what began in 2016 or even 2015 and continued until and beyond the day that Robert Mueller deposited his nearly 500-page report clearing the president of "Collusion" was not a hoax at all.
The actions taken by the Obama Administration threatened not just Donald Trump and his presidency but the very processes and protocols by which the peaceful transition of power has been effected in the United States.
https://spectator.us/lets-call-the-russian-collusion-hoax-what-it-really-is/
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