By now you’ve heard that @SteveScully’s allegation of being hacked was a lie.
I thought that, surely, there wouldn’t be a need for a thread on this, because no one could have possibly believed his original claim, but...
Nope. We had bad takes.
Starting off, we have the inimitable @joelockhart who thinks you are - I kid you not - “a damn liar” for so much as QUESTIONING Scully’s allegation that he was hacked.
I thought it would only be Joe out on gullible ledge on this one.
The bombshell @nypost story about Joe & Hunter Biden has caused some bluechecks to suddenly worry about pushing a story that may not be true.
Where was that sentiment during the Russian collusion hoax?
Your latest class of the Hypocrisy Hall of Fame. #HypocrisyHOF
Perhaps the richest about-face comes from @jonathanchait. The same guy who suggested, with a straight face, that Trump has been a Russian asset since the 1980s & endlessly pushed the Steele dossier is worried that the Post’s story is a Russian hack. True #HypocrisyHOF material.
Right behind him in lack of self awareness is @kylegriffin1.
He didn’t want anyone sharing the link to the Post story, but he was happy to share @RepAdamSchiff’s conspiracy about Russian collusion even post-Mueller report.
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.