Russiagate was real enough
The most inflammatory accusations might not have panned out, but what we know about Trump and Russia is still shocking.
A thought experiment: imagine if OJ Simpson had been accused of murdering five people, but it turned out he’d only been falsely accused and framed by the LAPD because reasons for murder killed two people. And then OJ’s supporters declared, “the lamestream media just exaggerated this whole thing from the start” and got #OJMurderHoax trending on Twitter, and Naked Gun IV: The Rise of Nordberg got green-lighted.
Oh, and he also murdered another person and bragged about it on Twitter, but everyone just kind of moved on because that’s old news now.
That’s kind of how I felt when I saw that Donald Trump, who famously asked Russia to release information about one of his political opponents, once again asked Russia to release information about one of his political opponents:
Amid widespread criticism of his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin, former President Donald Trump publicly called on Putin on Tuesday to release any dirt he might have on Hunter Biden, th…
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