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That supposed FBI investigation of collusion with the Russians? Never mind . . .

By Andrew C. McCarthy, The National Review

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Theyre in retreat now. You may have missed it amid President Trumps startling Saturday tweet storm, the recriminations over president-on-candidate spying, and the Jeff Sessions recusal a whirlwind weekend. But while you werent looking, an elaborate narrative died.

For months, the media-Democrat complex has peddled a storyline that the Putin regime in Russia hacked the U.S. presidential election. There is, of course, no evidence that the election was hacked in the sense that the actual voting process was compromised. Rather, there is evidence that e-mail accounts of prominent Democrats were hacked months before the election, and thousands of those e-mails were published by WikiLeaks in the months leading up to the election.

Into this misleading Russia hacked the election narrative, the press and the Dems injected a second explosive allegation or at least an explosive suspicion that theyve wanted us to perceive as a credible allegation meriting a serious investigation. The suspicion/allegation is: Not only did Russia hack the election, but there are also enough ties between people in the Trump orbit and operatives of the Putin regime that there are grounds to believe that the Trump campaign was complicit in Russias hacking of the election.

Transparently, the aim is to undermine the legitimacy of Trumps election victory.

Finally, the third prong, without the support of which the stool would collapse: the impression that the FBI has been feverishly investigating what is said to be the Trump campaigns collusion in what is said to be the Russian hacking of the election. This reporting is designed to get you saying to yourself: Why would there be such a zealous investigation by FBI agents in addition to several other intelligence and law-enforcement agents unless there really were grave reasons to believe the shocking election-hacking conspiracy narrative?

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