The attempt to pin Donald Trump’s election on the Russians is
collapsing into utter absurdity. One of the most dangerous lies ever
told has come totally undone, lost in the endless pages of Facebook.
Russiagate is the conspiracy that never was, a tale spun by Democrats
and corporate media manipulators who did everything they could to make
Trump a viable candidate for president, only to be defeated by him in
the Electoral College. Trump’s unpredictability, his occasional
questioning of U.S. permanent war policies, unnerved the military and
intelligence operatives of the empire. The spooks said they were
“confident” that it was the Russians, not Wikileaks, who hacked into the
bowels of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
The spooks admitted they had no proof, and nearly a year after the
election, it is clear that no evidence of Russian culpability in the
affair exists. Russiagate is, in the words of the media mercenary Van
Jones, a “nothing-burger.” And yet, it is a lie that was endlessly
amplified and expanded upon because it serves those with an interest in
permanent global conflict. So, to promote war without end we got lies
without end, all orbiting around the black, empty hole called
Russiagate. Based on no facts and no evidence, a non-existent electronic
break-in grew into a massive Russian campaign to disrupt U.S. elections
in 2016. But, the Russiagate mob has discovered that it’s hard to feed
an infinitely expanding lie. Inevitably, they have had to scale back
their inquisition.
-- Glen Ford, "Russiagate: The Lie Implodes" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).