The dossier was an irrelevancy, a red herring, a conspiracy theory, a misnomer. Then, suddenly, 10 months later, that kaleidoscope pane completely disappeared. The dossier had to be true - it just had to be! Here was the proof that Trump was owned by the Russians. Of all these, it was the dossier that dominated the news for most of Trump’s first year in office. Seventeen intelligence agencies say Russia hacked the DNC’s emails to help Trump! George Papadopoulos talked about Hillary’s emails! Jeff Sessions met with the Russian ambassador!Ĭarter Page went to Russia! (But unlike Bernie Sanders, NOT on his honeymoon - ed.) Roger Stone tweeted something mean about John Podesta! The Russian collusion story isn’t a story at all, but a constantly changing kaleidoscope with the same glass panes appearing, disappearing and then reappearing under the same headline: RUSSIAN COLLUSION PROVED! Each time, we’re supposed to pretend it’s an all-new “breaking news” story that hasn’t been disproved six times already. (*Thus, according to the Times: “Woodward has never been a graceful writer, but the prose here is unusually wooden.”) Oh, that old yarn? Yeah, we hysterically oversold that one, but maybe you’d be interested in this other scandal we tried pushing a few months ago! You will know, if you have read a much better book* about the Trump hysteria, Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind, that, eventually, this is what the Resistance says about every part of the Russian collusion story. Oh, by the way, here is a to-do list for further reporting and we’re publishing it.” Woodward writes: “It would be as if I had reported and written one of the most serious, complex stories for The Washington Post that I had ever done, and then provided an appendix of unverified allegations. According to The New York Times, Woodward is flabbergasted that former FBI Director James Comey released the Russian dossier, when he had the “airtight” report of 17 INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES. I was minding my own business reading about Bob Woodward, the GREATEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER IN THE HISTORY OF OUR REPUBLIC (as he will be the first to tell you), and came across this bit of genius from his book.
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