Russiagate story hits the wall

Trump was right: 'Russian collusion' was a hoax. Good luck regaining public's trust.

(From an.opinion piece on USA Today)

After four years, we finally have the full 316-page report from Justice Department special counsel John Durham, and it’s a damning indictment of some of our country’s leading institutions.

Durham said the FBI should have never launched an investigation into alleged Russian collusion with Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, given the slim evidence.

That is a huge win for Trump, who has for years called out his unfair treatment by the FBI – and a media all too willing to find blame in the former president’s actions.

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The investigation into the "collusion" clouded Trump’s entire presidency, and Democrats harnessed the tale to paint Trump as an illegitimate president.

The real-life implication is that some Trump supporters will see the Durham report as reason to believe the former president’s outrageous claims, including that the 2020 election was "stolen."

A 2020 election repeat? Many Republicans don't want Trump to be the 2024 GOP nominee. But Democrats sure do.

Double standard: If Trump was 'irresponsible' for stashing secret documents, what does it make Biden?

The quest for objective reality stumbles along. . . .

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Shahryar's picture

Trump was right, just like we were, that this was a phony story coming from the Democrats, on a par with "Lamont hacked my website".

Trump is also wrong that the "2020 election was rigged". Because that particular statement is on a par with "the Russians did it!"

As Bob Dylan said "propaganda, all is phony"

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TheOtherMaven's picture

@Shahryar
(we really have no way to know whether it was or not), but the campaign was rigged seventy ways to Sunday and no doubt about it.

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

@Shahryar that was the rigging. but only part of it, they pulled so much garbage. all to deliver us unto Biden and his associates. if russia could have achieved that kind of disinformation, would it have been rigging? those morons on january 6th were onto something...

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After how many decades of not trusting the intelligence agencies they flipped and thought that they would never lie to them?

John Durham is full of it, but do you know how?

"And yet they are walking around on the right acting like this is more vindication and the whole thing was orchestrated by Obama and Clinton. These clowns are worse than Pravda or Tass ever was."

That’s exactly what they did. Hillary made it up and Obama ran with it. McConnell wouldn’t go along with Obama saying that Russia interfered in the election, but then he never spilled the beans either and let everyone know that it was a psyops. Why? Because republicans wanted the war with Russia to which the Hellabitch was supposed to start over Syria and by creating a no fly zone over the country. Russia disobeyed and all out war.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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@snoopydawg y

....have turned stupid. There’s nothing so disturbing and disorienting as when a friend or loved one has broken with reality, mentally…. or develops debilitating dementia. At times like that, your own life enters unfamiliar territory. Connections are severed in your own reality..

Of course, competing narratives drive cognitive disonance in the general population. Competing realities force people into into selective denial of existing data. This psychic crisis is exacerbated by the extreme levels of propaganda and the prejudiced censorsorship.

I think many people believed that when the hoax was revealed to the world, the victims of the propaganda would return to the evidence-based world. My own experience with lifelong friends, of the Democratic persuasion in New York, however, has convinced me that too much mental damage has been done. They cannot return to the world that is unfolding before us.

I fear the consequences of this deceit may be very grave for the nation.

If the US does start a hot war, the fight will be with an enemy that we have manufactured from the fever dreams of our collective psychosis.

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It's right freaking there, all the time.

The problem is everyone desperate to run away from it, for some reason.

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

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