Freddy Gray Freddy Gray

The vindication of Donald Trump

 

 Washington

‘Some of the findings of these Trump investigations are hard to believe.’

Robert Mueller’s two-year investigation into ‘Russiagate’ was meant to bring down President Donald Trump. That was the plan. For almost two years, the various ranks of the Democratic and ‘Never Trump’ Republican establishment have insisted that Mueller would prove the Trump campaign had colluded with Vladimir Putin’s government to win the 2016 election. President Trump would then be ousted from the White House, justice served, order returned to the cosmos. But the cosmos had other ideas. Mueller has found no damning evidence of collusion, though not for want of trying. It was FAKE NEWS all along, as Trump himself said, often in capitals. Far from destroying the President, then, the Mueller investigation has achieved the opposite. The whole saga should go down as one of the greatest self-defeating acts in history. It’s madness. The people who most hate Trump have somehow conspired to vindicate him and his world view. More than ever, voters really believe that there is a nefarious (albeit incompetent) ‘liberal elite’ which will stop at nothing. That might mean the President is re-elected next year. If Trump does win in 2020, he should take a moment to thank all the people who spent his first term peddling the Russia story. The politicians, the insiders, the thinktankers, the pundits, the spooks, the former spooks, the journalists who speak to spooks — he couldn’t have done it without them. Russiagate was made out to be a 21st-century Watergate: bigger, badder, more apocalyptic. But it was really a shoddy conspiracy theory invented and leapt on by Trump’s opponents because they could not accept that Donald Trump — Donald Trump! — was the leader of the free world. The media humiliated itself worst of all. Any sane person can tell that CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Guardian and the Washington Post, to name but five, have lost the plot over Trump and Russia.

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