Mollie, there was no Russia collusion hoax. The IG found a properly predicated investigation. Mueller found a systematic plot by Russia to interfere in the US election, and that the president was aware of and sought to benefit from Russias assistance while lying to the public. https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1204858756875640833
Mueller found that the president engaged in activity in numerous instances that met all statutory elements of obstruction of justice. Mueller found that the president lied to the public, repeatedly, and that Trump's answers to the Special Counsel were untrue.
I recognize that's inconvenient for you. I recognize that you think if you yell and wave your hands and lie enough times people will believe you. Maybe some people will. But it won't change the facts of what occurred.
I'm not exactly sure what you are implying by a "reckoning" exactly. I presume it is intended to sound ominous. But I stand behind my work and everything I've written.
I think we should take the findings regarding both mistakes and intentional misconduct regarding Carter Page seriously. As someone who has defended the Woods procedures as sufficient in the past, I think the IG report presents facts that require a serious reexamination.
As someone who has been working on and writing about FISA and IC oversight since, I suspect, before you even knew the term, it would be a mistake for anyone to dismiss these facts simply because they are inconvenient or because people like you manipulate them to lie to people.
I get that there are powerful incentives for you to say and write the things you do. I am grateful for the challenging and thoughtful conservative thinkers who force me to rigorously examine first principles. I sincerely hope people don't confuse them for people like you.
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