Trump’s Latest Fantasy: ‘Now Commonly Agreed’ No Collusion With Russia – Except for Hillary
Trump’s Insane Fantasies He Parades as Fact Come Straight From Fox News – And That’s Dangerous
President Donald Trump’s Fox News fantasy world has led to what can only be described as an insane statement. Friday morning, following a string of strange and random tweets, Trump insisted that it is “now commonly agreed” there was no collusion between Trump, his campaign, and Russia. But he’s also insisting the real collusion was between his former Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, and Russia.
It is now commonly agreed, after many months of COSTLY looking, that there was NO collusion between Russia and Trump. Was collusion with HC!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 27, 2017
Both allegations are demonstrably false.
A CNN poll from August found 60 percent of Americans think allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia are “a serious matter that should be fully investigated.â€
As for the Fox News latest deep dive into baloney, totally false. The basic premise is the DNC and the Clinton campaign “colluded” with Russia because they paid (in part) a commercial research firm for opposition research to investigate the Trump campaign. Fusion GPS in turn hired a former British MI6 spy to conduct the research.
That research became the now-famous “Steele Dossier,” which included allegations of Trump’s supposedly salacious sexual behaviors in a Russia hotel.
How all that becomes “Hillary Clinton colluded with Russia” is beyond comprehension.
Here’s how The Washington Post’s Paul Waldman explains it:
There may be no talent the Republican Party and the conservative movement have that is more astounding than the way they are able to take a ludicrous idea with zero relationship to actual facts, light a fuse on it, and turn it into an explosive firework of spin that manages to confuse everyone who tries to look at the issue that started the whole controversy.
Donald Trump gets his news primarily from Fox News, and that’s not only pathetic, it’s dangerous.
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