Thread by @PRIMONUTMEG

Conspiracy theories are only called “conspiracy theories” when they allege that the elite have done something wrong.

But when a conspiracy theory is a narrative created by the elite for the purpose of extending their power, it is NOT called a “conspiracy theory” (like Iraqi WMD)

RussiaGate has been a conspiracy theory pushed by Democratic Party loyalists, the military-industrial complex and the corporate media for 3 years.

And that constantly-changing conspiracy theory was debunked at every turn to the point where it’s now evolved into just Obstruction

The irony is, there were real, actual, provable conspiracies within RussiaGate.

From the onset, there was a conspiracy to spread the Russia narrative at the 2016 Democratic Convention.

washingtonpost.com/posteverything…

There was, according to James Comey, also a conspiracy by the DNC to keep the FBI from ever examining their servers:

thehill.com/policy/nationa…

And we later also found out that the FBI didn’t even get to see Crowdstrike’s unredacted report:

consortiumnews.com/2019/06/17/fbi…

Then there was the conspiracy by Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, as well as a conspiracy to destroy their text messages.

realclearpolitics.com/2018/12/14/mue…

Then there was the conspiracy by Mueller’s team to conflate the Internet Research Agency and the Russian government, with zero evidence to do so.

consortiumnews.com/2019/07/12/con…

And that conspiracy by New Knowledge to create the illusion of Russian interference in the Alabama Senate Race.

nytimes.com/2018/12/19/us/…

But none of these things got much time on @maddow.

Instead we were told to obsess over Natalia Veselnitskaya’s meeting at Trump Tower, but not her meetings with Fusion GPS owner Glenn Simpson before & after.

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/t…

We were told to obsess over Konstantin Kilimnik’s meeting with Manafort but not his ties to the State Department.

thehill.com/opinion/white-…

Similar story with Josef Mifsud.

washingtonpost.com/politics/the-e…

Time and time again, REAL conspiracies were revealed in the RussiaGate saga — all of them working towards propping up a fake, insane, cartoonish conspiracy theory that Trump was Russian agent.

And, most forgotten of all was the REAL conspiracy by Hillary Clinton, the DNC & the corporate media against Bernie Sanders.

That was the original, proven conspiracy that RussiaGate was concocted to conceal:

Bernie was cheated so Hillary could lose to her chosen pied piper

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