Politico Goes Full Tin Foil Hat Over Trump And Russia; Editors Lose Their Minds

Politico touts itself as a middle-of-the-road publication. They pretend they cover both sides fairly – without “fear of favor,” as journalists like to claim.

But if an article by their senior political editor is any indication, they’ve slid down the rabbit hole into InfoWars territory, spouting innuendo, rumors and flat-out lies as fact.

Their Saturday article, titled “Out with Collusion, In with Intrusion,” starts out with an admission of fact: There is not a scintilla of evidence that the Trump Presdiential Campaign colluded with Russia to tamper with the November election.

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But this – in the first paragraph of the article – is where the facts end and the hysterical speculation begins.

For example, Politico’s Jack Shafer wonders why – if everybody knew that Russia was actively trying to throw a monkey wrench into the Election – why did Trump still even speak to Kremlin officials at all?

What did Trump know about Russian interference and when did he know it could become the investigation’s new battle cry. The question seems inescapable, no matter what kind of horse halters Sarah Huckabee Sanders straps to the White House press corps to nullify their inquiries. The Republican leadership has questions to answer, too. According to the Post, Republicans resisted Obama administration efforts during the campaign to phrase a bipartisan warning about the Russian raid: When a convoy containing the heads of the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, as well as the president’s homeland security adviser voyaged to Capitol Hill to brief leadership, the “meeting devolved into a partisan squabble,” with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) rejecting the findings. Somewhere, Putin had to be chortling over the discord he had injected in Washington.

This is all the dictionary definition of making something out of nothing.

Trump has been completely vindicated – he had nothing to do with Russia, no contact with the Kremlin and no secret, backdoor deal to steal the election. This is now not even in question.

So Politico is trying to weave a new narrative. Since some leftists thought Trump was colluding with Putin, why would he dare to even speak of Russia, even in passing? Surely – they seem to be implying – Trump should have acted is if there wasn’t even a Russia on the map, and ignored any relationship with them at all.

This from a President who has long said he’d rather be friends with Russia than enemies.

It’s the height of lunacy: People think you did something bad, so you should have a foreign and diplomatic policy that ignore that the Kremlin even exists.

What a bunch of nonsense.