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Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency
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11 minute read
Published Aug 13, 2019
What you'll learn
There’s been a lot of talk about alleged collusion between Trump and Putin, but Andrew McCarthy argues that the real collusion was between the Obama administration, the Justice Department, US counterintelligence, and the Clinton campaign.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 A cadre of progressive elites rigged the 2016 US presidential election because they didn’t trust the citizenry to elect the right candidate.
- 2 The Obama administration, the FBI, and the Justice Department gave Hillary Clinton every break they could when the email story broke.
- 3 Russia was not considered a serious existential threat until the Democrats needed an excuse for why Clinton lost the election.
- 4 The sudden outcry over Russia obscured the fact that political leaders attempt to influence elections all the time—including Clinton and Obama.
- 5 The Trump-Russia circus could not have gotten as far as it did without a great deal of cooperation among political higher-ups across departments.
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