The Russian investigation and its similarity to the Salem witch trials

J.D. Gordon:
I am learning what it is like to be caught up in the Russia witch hunt
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While roughly 50 Trump associates have appeared before such investigations, none have been charged with anything remotely connected to collusion — the stated reason for multiple probes. Yet four are likely headed to prison anyway. Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates were charged with past financial crimes. Retired General Michael Flynn and George Papadapoulos were strong armed into guilty pleas by the Special Counsel for false statements.

That leaves dozens of Trump associates like me with overturned lives and high legal bills to defend ourselves from this modern day witch hunt — despite zero evidence of wrongdoing on our parts. Thank goodness for my campaign colleague Michael Caputo, his lawyer Ralph Lorigo and their grassroots supporters at the Michael Caputo Legal Fund for paying my 5-figure legal bills.

While times may have changed since 17th century Salem, human nature hasn’t. Powerful establishment figures still want to destroy outcasts. They’re outraged that a troublesome outsider like Donald Trump literally took their power and they’re trying to ruin him and associates who helped win the election.

They’ve resorted to any means necessary – including espionage on political opponents, selectively leaking classified information, wholesale defamation, misleading Congress and the American people. It’s one mass crime scene by those purportedly representing “law and justice.” Congress should fully investigate those behind such attacks on our democracy and follow the evidence wherever it leads.
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The latest scam in the witch hunt is to attempt to criminalize any conversation with a Russian during the campaign.  That is just nuts.  Having contact with someone is not remotely "collusion."  Yet that is what people in the left wing media have been pushing in recent days.

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