What if the great smoking gun in the Trump-Russia enquiry is not Donald Trump’s collusion with the Kremlin? What if the real conspiracy turns out to be a Democrat conspiracy to invent a Trump-Russia conspiracy? What if the baddies of 2016 turn out to be not Trump and Vladimir Putin — but Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton?
These are questions that right-wing headbangers have been asking for months — but everyone tends to think they are crazy so ignores them. In recent days, however, the theory of a dark Democrat plot to discredit and undermine Donald Trump has taken on a life of its own. This is thanks to wild reports about a classified four-page memo, which allegedly shows that the whole Mueller investigation is a politically motivated sham. Big news, if not fake.
What we do know is that on January 18, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence voted to allow select members of the House of Representatives to view a ‘memo’. The theory — and it is just a theory — is that the document, compiled by House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes, provides evidence that the Obama administration maliciously used the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which was intended to protect Americans from terrorism, to spy on the Trump campaign.
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