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Great thread. Agree with most of what he is saying. In some ways Russian collusion was always the Benghazi for democrats. That doesn't mean that Trump has not done illegal stuff that he should be accountable for but I don't think the hollywood style conspiracy, that over enthusiastic liberals believe in, has even been real. Even around the elections, there has never been proof that actual vote counts were ever affected by Russia melding. They used new media to influence the conversation but that already happens in US all the time via legal means of insane amount of political advertisements on old media. Dems should have actually focussed the investigation on the voter suppressions given that's how the Republicans actually steal elections all the time.
I don't understand Greenwald's point. Why wouldn't the media be all over a story about a hostile foreign power influencing American elections and whether or not the President or his accoylytes participated. That's one of the biggest stories ever and has yielded 199 criminal charges, 37 indictments or guilty pleas, and 5 prison sentences. Everyone involved in the investigations and those covering it in the media did their jobs.