Democrats still pushing discredited Russian collusion hoax

Rich Lowry:
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still likes to say that “all roads lead to Putin.” The allegation that Trump might be a Russian agent is still heard on cable TV. Hillary Clinton still thinks the Kremlin holds compromising information on Trump. The notorious MSNBC analyst Malcolm Nance is still at it, claiming that the Russians have been surveilling Trump since his marriage to Ivana, a Czech, in 1977, and “they now own him.”

The Mueller report is considered wanting because its findings were “based on the available information.” What about all the unavailable information? The notion that there is some cache of incriminating evidence that Mueller and his team missed is hard to credit. This line of reasoning makes the charge that Trump is an agent of Russia essentially unfalsifiable, a classic characteristic of a conspiracy theory.

The fallback evidence for the Russia obsessives is that Trump is acting like a Russia agent. There’s no doubt that Trump believes that, ­absent political flak back home, he and Russian strongman Vladimir Putin could cut some unspecified wondrous deal. But he’s thought, at times, he could cut a deal with Kim Jung-un and the Taliban, too.

If Trump has disparaged NATO, he also tends to look askance at all international organizations as rip-offs. He has minimized or ­denied Russian meddling in the 2016 election, but almost certainly because he considers the focus on Russia a way to undermine the ­legitimacy of his victory (which, in part, it clearly is).

Seeing the Ukraine mess through the lens of Trump’s ­alleged loyalty to Moscow also doesn’t make sense. Trump has a dim view of Ukraine, although largely because he believes Ukrainians worked against him in 2016. Yet the bottom line is that Trump’s Ukraine policy is more hawkish than President Barack Obama’s.

Trump’s predecessor steadfastly refused to give lethal aid to Ukraine to defend itself from a Russian invasion. Trump has provided such aid. His supposed offense is delaying, for a matter of months, that aid before coughing it up. Why would Putin consider this approach preferable to Obama’s, which denied Ukraine this help, not provisionally, not temporarily, but firmly as a matter of principle?

Another count against Trump is that his pullback from northeastern Syria boosts Russian influence in the country, although the Russians arrived in Syria in force during Obama’s “red line” fiasco. If Trump is acting like an agent for Moscow, so did Obama, beginning with his then-Secretary of State Clinton offering her Russian counterpart that misbegotten ­“reset” button.
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The Russian collusion hoax was an attempt to delegitimize Trump's victory over a corrupt Hillary Clinton was a part of the Democrat culture of corruption that tries to delegitimize any Republican victory.   It is part of an illegitimate effort by the Democrats that has been ongoing since Clinton was defeated.  It is nuts and those who are pushing it deserved to be ignored as nuts.

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