For months now, the Democrats and the mainstream media have kept up a constant drumbeat of Russian interference with the 2016 election, collusion of the Trump campaign with the Russians to undermine Hillary, and meeting with and the firing of the FBI director as a clear act of obstruction of justice. We are now spending millions of dollars on a special prosecutor whose job, according to the worst of the Trump haters in the Democratic party, the MSM, social media, and message boards, is to indict the President and impeach him.
Yet again and again the Russian connection, one that has no doubt existed for decades, has failed to produce the desired smoking gun:
Ex-Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson’s testimony Wednesday should mark the definitive end of “Russia hacked the election” hysteria. Too bad it took so long to get to this point.Johnson told the House Intelligence Committee outright that the Russians failed to alter “ballots, ballot counts or reporting of election results.”
Yes, it’s clear Russia (with Vladimir Putin’s full approval) orchestrated cyberattacks designed to influence the 2016 contest, and also pushed fake news.
But the hack, and release via WikiLeaks, etc., of Democratic emails produced nothing game-changing. The biggest impact was to confirm the obvious: The Democratic National Committee favored Hillary Clinton from the start.
And fake news mainly feeds people’s existing prejudices — which serves Putin’s goal of undermining our democracy, but fails to flip votes from one party to the other.
Johnson also made it plain that Democrats didn’t take the problem too seriously: “The FBI and the DNC had been in contact with each other months before about the intrusion, and the DNC did not feel it needed DHS’s assistance at that time.”. . .
Good riddance to the Russia myth — and blame Team Obama for promoting it | New York Post
At what point do honorable Americans back off this non stop politics of personal destruction and get back to the business of pulling together to make America better, stronger, more unified, and productive for all?