RTMon, 25 Mar 2019 21:17 UTC
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As the Russiagate conspiracy theory disintegrates in the wake of the Mueller report's conclusions, Resistance Twitter is struggling to cope, while Trump supporters are basking in their foes' suffering.
The anti-Trump coalition largely seized on the line in Attorney General William Barr's report summary stating the document "does not exonerate" Trump of obstruction charges, demanding the release of the special counsel's report. The reality-based community could only look on in amazement. And laugh.
Some screeched about a cover-up,
The moving of goalposts commenced,
...and Barr was declared compromised.
Conservatives gleefully pronounced the Resistance DOA,
Celebrating with memes,
and mocking the inability of the self-appointed opposition to come to terms with reality.
Others were more gentle in their mockery.
While Russiagate skeptics with no love lost for Trump predicted the next step of the madness.
Comment: Some want the peddlers of the fake Russiagate narrative
held accountable. Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute, told RT:
"Now that these people have pushed this false narrative, and have damaged lives, and have damaged careers - is this where it's going to end? Are they going to have to pay for their crimes?"
Political analyst Charles Ortel told RT:
The American establishment and mass media not only wasted millions of taxpayers' dollars "fomenting and stoking tensions" between world nuclear superpowers, but also undermining any remaining trust in them.
"Any of these outlets that have been subjecting the world to all this... this is going to mark a death row for a lot of traditional media complexes, and magazines, and newspapers, etc," he said. "Many Americans are sick and tired of this baloney. And we're going to tune it out, we're going to be rejecting them. We're going to be looking for our news in a different way."
Whoever decided to take us down this rat hole cannot be allowed to escape without intense scrutiny.
Patrick Henningsen, an American writer and global affairs analyst, told RT:
"What the president is going to do now is to take this result -or the lack of a result- and use it as a stick to perpetually beat the opposition with, right through the 2020 election cycle,"Henningsen predicted. "This will allow the president to fuel his attacks on the press [because it] vindicated his accusations of the fake news by CNN and others."
Famed lawyer and professor Alan Dershowitz has
criticized Mueller's job as lead prosecutor, claiming he "didn't do his job":
"Mueller seems to have conducted a generally fair investigation. But he failed to come to a clear decision about obstruction of justice. That was his job and he should have done it.
A senior Russian lawmaker, Konstantin Kosachyov, who heads the Federation Council's International Affairs Committee, has
called for a "reset" in US-Russian relations in light of Mueller's findings.
Comment: Some want the peddlers of the fake Russiagate narrative held accountable. Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute, told RT: Political analyst Charles Ortel told RT: Patrick Henningsen, an American writer and global affairs analyst, told RT: Famed lawyer and professor Alan Dershowitz has criticized Mueller's job as lead prosecutor, claiming he "didn't do his job": A senior Russian lawmaker, Konstantin Kosachyov, who heads the Federation Council's International Affairs Committee, has called for a "reset" in US-Russian relations in light of Mueller's findings.