The Must-Read Article of the Day that everyone’s talking about: Andrew C. McCarthy at National Review argues that the whole “Trump’s people colluded with the Russians to ‘hack’ the election” nonsense is crumbling before our eyes as Democrats frantically backpedal away from it, knowing that it could be replaced by a far bigger scandal involving the Obama Administration’s abuse of power to spy on political opponents. It was a great distraction and a way to hamstring Trump’s Administration for a while, but as McCarthy notes, they were playing with fire. Once it became obvious that there was no evidence of any wrongdoing, it would start to occur to Americans to ask, “Say, if there was no spying on the Republican candidate and his team, how did the government get all those ‘intercepted conversations’ that were leaked to the media?”
If journalists still thought their job was to dig up the truth rather than to undermine Trump and prop up the Democrats, that question might have occurred to them several weeks ago. Read the whole thing: