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'Russia collusion' did affect an election: 2018 - WND po.st/wIBKiq via @worldnetdaily

It was the 2018 election, in which Democrats regained control of the House amid the belief by many voters that the opposition party needed to hold accountable a treasonous Republican president,

With more than 530,000 stories published online about the probe, the “earned media impact of that negative coverage likely would have cost billions of dollars if a Democratic candidate had tried to buy such coverage,”

Amid the “Impeach Trump” machine fueled by Democrats and the media, more than three dozen Republican incumbents in Congress announced they were retiring in 2018, “leaving the GOP with a gaping hole in the House that Democrats exploited.”

Solomon notes that polls showed the Russia coverage impacted voters, with more than half believing Trump or his aides had colluded with Russia.
“It is the most compelling proof in a long time that false information repeated long enough becomes truth for many people.”

“If the FBI probe ran with the secrecy of a normal counterintelligence operation, Americans never would have heard all of this, especially when the core allegations — in the Steele dossier — turned out to be bogus.”

“But the FBI, Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson, Steele, U.S. intelligence officials and lawmakers briefed in Congress all leaked various details to the news media, creating a furor unseen since Watergate,”

“The only difference is, Watergate involved proven crimes by a president and the Russia-collusion narrative ultimately did not.”