{"id":11147,"date":"2018-04-17T11:58:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T18:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11147"},"modified":"2018-04-17T11:58:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T18:58:39","slug":"colluders-on-the-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/colluders-on-the-loose\/","title":{"rendered":"Colluders on the Loose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">Comey, McCabe, Clapper, Brennan, Lynch, Andrew Weissmann, Bruce and Nellie Ohr, Harry Reid, Samantha Power, Clinton attorney Jeannie Rhee . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span>f collusion is the twin of conspiracy, then there are lots of colluders running around Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Mueller was tasked to find evidence of Trump and Russia collusion that might have warped the 2016 campaign and thrown the election to Trump. After a year, his investigation has found no concrete evidence of collusion. So it has often turned to other purported Trump misadventures. Ironically, collusion of all sorts \u2014 illegal, barely legal, and simply unethical \u2014 has been the sea that Washington fish always swim in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/04\/colluders-washington-clinton-obama-loaylists\/?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&amp;utm_campaign=314b3cc5f5-HDR&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-314b3cc5f5-73437989\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Comey, McCabe, Clapper, Brennan, Lynch, Andrew Weissmann, Bruce and Nellie Ohr, Harry Reid, Samantha Power, Clinton attorney Jeannie Rhee . . . If collusion is the twin of conspiracy, then there are lots of colluders running around Washington. Robert Mueller was tasked to find evidence of Trump and Russia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1161,375,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2TN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11847,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/colluders-obstructionists-leakers-and-other-projectionists\/","url_meta":{"origin":11147,"position":0},"title":"Colluders, Obstructionists, Leakers, and Other Projectionists","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Before the defeat of Hillary Clinton, the idea that the Russians or anyone else could warp or tamper with our elections in any serious manner was laughed off by President Obama. \u201cThere is no serious person out there who would suggest that you could\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hillary Clinton&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hillary Clinton","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/hillary-clinton\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11845,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/federal-rats-are-fleeing-the-sinking-collusion-ship\/","url_meta":{"origin":11147,"position":1},"title":"Federal Rats Are Fleeing the Sinking Collusion Ship","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative was always implausible. 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Barr recently released a brief summary of special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s conclusions that Donald Trump did not collude with the Russians to warp the 2016 election.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12176,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-art-of-warping-elections\/","url_meta":{"origin":11147,"position":3},"title":"The Art of Warping Elections","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review No sooner were Democrats\u2019 Trump-Russia collusion charges debunked than they began to claim that Trump will do again in 2020 what Robert Mueller found he did not do in 2016: rig the election. 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