Dems were aware of the Russian collusion hoax

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A Democratic member of Congress said the quiet part out loud over the weekend, admitting that prominent party officials knew the Trump-Russia collusion allegation was a hoax but chose to pursue it anyway in order to hamstring Trump at the start of his first administration.

The offhand remark by Rep. Jason Crow (D-WI) on “Fox News Sunday” was flagged by conservative legal scholar Jonathan Turley, who called the admission “damning” in light of “falsehoods” being promulgated by U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and others.

“That is a particularly telling and frank[ly] damning statement since figures like Adam Schiff were out spreading the false collusion claims,” Turley wrote on X.

In a column, the George Washington University law professor described the Trump administration’s effort to tell “the story of the real Russian conspiracy: how high-ranking officials in the Obama Administration seeded this false claim with the help of an eager, unquestioning press corps.”

“Not surprisingly, the media (which spent years repeating the false Russian collusion claims) is doing a full-court press to kill the story. Yet, many of these key figures are retaining counsel in anticipation of the unfolding investigation. Many previously secured contracts with MSNBC or CNN, or book deals, where they doubled down on the false claims detailed in these new documents,” he wrote.

Schiff, who was elected to the Senate in 2024, spent his time on the J6 committee “insist[ing] that he had evidence of collusion” but never produced it, even after special counsel Robert Mueller concluded that the evidence never existed.

“The mantra in the media and the Democratic Party that there is nothing to see here is predictable but hardly credible,” he added.

“Many of these same congressional figures were fully aware that Russian collusion was rejected by American intelligence before the start of the Trump term. However, they continued to knowingly spread the disinformation for political purposes.”
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The evidence of the Democrats' politics of fraud is overwhelming.  They knew the Russia collusion story was a fake and that it was done to smear Trump and his administration.  Obama knew it, and so did other Democrats who pushed the fraud.  Some in the media were just as bad.  They should lose more than just their credibility.  They should lose their office.