My column from just over a year ago, right after the country was emerging from the 2 year long RussiaGate/Mueller fiascos.

Every word of it is still true.

Change my mind. https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-curtain-has-been-pulled-back-revealing-the-true-collusion_2853780.html

The entire country was trapped in a nightmare for the past two years as it was tirelessly and relentlessly repeated that President Donald Trump was a traitor who was working on behalf of the Russians.

This theme was hammered home endlessly by most of the broadcast news networks and in the print media.

Ever since Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Trump, Democrats in Congress, the media, and several Spygate plotters hired to be political commentators colluded to sell to the American public one of the biggest hoaxes in world history: That Trump is a Russian agent.

And now?

Now it's over.

The end of the Mueller special counsel investigation has pulled back the curtain and exposed the awful truth. Behind the curtain, at long last, there was … nothing.

As in the classic film “The Wizard of Oz,” despite all the fearful appearances and doom-crying promises, in the end, Robert Mueller came out and the Great And Powerful Prosecutor himself admitted there was no evidence of collusion.

All these people were either lying or were being misled, and the consequences of all this are staggering. How could so many people get so much so disastrously wrong for so long?

This wasn’t some brief here-today-gone-tomorrow news story the reporters just happened to get wrong.

This was the ***major news topic that transfixed the entire nation for more than 24 months***.

And it was all a HOAX.

News organizations won awards for pursuing this—including Pulitzer Prizes—for their coverage of what now has turned out to be a chimeric mirage.

The mainstream media got so much wrong on the Spygate scandal during the past two years that it’s hard to figure out where to begin this reckoning.

But I’ll take a shot at it.

THE STEELE DOSSIER

The Steele dossier was always a massive fraud. Anyone who read it in a discerning fashion—rather than just dumbly swallowing what it claimed—could easily see that.

Yet, despite the manifest absurdities in the dossier, for more than two years, news media organizations frantically and breathlessly published one Fake News story after another based on it.

[Meanwhile, we at The @EpochTimes were busy uncovering the TRUTH about SpyGate!]

Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page was alleged to have been a key Russian agent in a massive plot to subvert the 2016 election, with crucial help from people such as then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former Trump Organization lawyer Michael Cohen.

Media outlets hawked absurd stories about Manafort sneaking into one of the most secure buildings in the world to supposedly meet with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and about Cohen being in Prague to pay off the hackers of Democratic National Committee emails.

Despite plenty of evidence out there showing these claims were bogus, media outlets published them.

McClatchy, BuzzFeed News, and several other media outlets made increasingly desperate attempts to rehabilitate the Steele dossier, trashing their own credibility in the process.

The crack team of highly motivated Democratic partisans who comprised the Mueller special counsel office, who had been given a super-wide scope within which to search [thanks, Rod!], couldn’t indict a single person on any of the allegations found in the Steele dossier.

Even Carter Page, the person the FBI swore before the FISA Court was a Russian agent and was at the very center of all this Trump–Russian collusion, came away with no criminal charges whatsoever.

That’s exactly as I predicted months ago, in a column here at The Epoch Times entitled “They Don’t Have Anything on Carter Page, And They Never Did.” https://www.theepochtimes.com/they-dont-have-anything-on-carter-page-and-they-never-did_2642743.html

Hopefully, the final release of Mueller’s report will at last lay to rest all of this media serial fabulism based on a fake dossier that came straight from the Clinton campaign.

[Yes, I wrote this column I am quoting from in this thread before the final report's release]