It’s a day that ends in y, which means there’s a new component of “Russian collusion” that has fallen apart.
Today’s is that Cambridge Analytica was the smoking gun, which was torn to shreds by a 3-year UK investigation.
I think some apologies are in order👇
This story starts, as so many Russian Collusion hoaxes do, with @HillaryClinton. As part of her efforts to pin her electoral defeat on anyone else, she suggested Cambridge Analytica might be the culprit.
And much like every other conspiracy theory that purports to tie Trump and Putin together, Congress quickly picked up her lead.
No surprises that @RepAdamSchiff led the pack down the same unverified rabbit hole.
Remember when Tom Nichols wrote a piece for Politico applauding Jonathan Chait's whacky conspiracy theory that Trump had been a Russian intel asset since 1987? politico.com/magazine/story…
and then Chait wrote an article a couple months later that literally had the line "I was right" in the headline? nymag.com/article/2019/0…
At some point, we need to have a reckoning about the ways that Dems & the media pushed the “Russian collusion” narrative - absent any evidence - and how they’ve refused to revisit it as the narrative has fallen apart.
Just in case you’ve forgotten how bad it was👇
We have to start here with @HillaryClinton, whose team invented this smear.
All of these were from before the election. The timing is important because we just learned today that US intel was worried about how Russia would use Clinton’s concocted attacks: thefederalist.com/2020/10/06/bre…
Of course, she wasn’t alone. Shortly behind her was @SpeakerPelosi, who took the fabricated allegations and, along with the rest of congressional Dems, whipped them into a firestorm unlike anything we’ve ever seen.
Reupping this🧵given the bombshell news today that US intel knew Russia was using the Clinton campaign’s “collusion” hoax against @realDonaldTrump to foment disinformation in 2016.
It’s clear that the media wasn’t just pushing nonsense, but actively helping Russian interference.