The Democrats’ Trump-Russia Conspiracy Campaign Collapses
- The Democrats’ Trump-Russia Conspiracy Campaign Collapses
by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
Is sanity finally returning? After weeks of ranting and raving about Russian “interference” and Putin-Trump conspiracies, so-called ‘intelligence’ agencies and high-ranking Democrats are quietly walking back their rhetoric and managing their base’s expectations – simply put: there’s no ‘there’, there.
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‘Moon of Alabama’ reminds us that a while ago Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone warned: Why the Russia Story Is a Minefield for Democrats and the Media:
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If we engage in Times-style gilding of every lily the leakers throw our way, and in doing so build up a fever of expectations for a bombshell reveal, but there turns out to be no conspiracy – Trump will be pre-inoculated against all criticism for the foreseeable future.
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And now, as The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald writes, key Democratic officials are now warning their base not to expect…
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