Trump-Russia collusion fades from the media headlines
Jun 24, 2017
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-russia-collusion-fades-from-the-media-headlines/article/2626994
It's been eerily quiet on the Trump-Russia collusion front. Has anybody checked to see if Charles Blow still has a pulse?
On a near-daily basis for the past five months, the national media published "bombshell" after "bombshell," incrementally building a narrative that President Trump's 2016 campaign coordinated with the Russian government and that when the feds were onto him, Trump tried to throw them off by removing James Comey as director of the FBI.
But following Comey's anti-climactic testimony earlier this month, and the testimonies of other intelligence officials, the subject is very suddenly not so juicy.
Writing in the Washington Post on Tuesday, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of the far-left Nation magazine, accused the media of harboring a "myopic obsession with all things Russia" that amounts to "malpractice" in journalism.
True.
When weeks and weeks worth of multiple investigations go by — the FBI and both houses of Congress are all investigating the same thing — with nothing to show for them, reporters might look into a mirror and wonder, "What have I been doing with my life?" (Unless you're Chris Hayes of MSNBC, in which case you look and wonder, "Why do I have the same haircut as Rachel Maddow?")
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Axios journalist Mike Allen writes a daily newsletter widely read in Washington and on Friday he wrote that "No evidence of collusion has emerged," which several leading Democrats have also publicly stated.
Comey said in his hearing before Congress that he had assured Trump at least three times that he was not under personal investigation and flatly said he was never asked by the president to end his probe into Russia's election interference.
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