{"id":11845,"date":"2019-05-26T00:22:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T07:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11845"},"modified":"2019-05-26T00:22:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T07:22:41","slug":"federal-rats-are-fleeing-the-sinking-collusion-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/federal-rats-are-fleeing-the-sinking-collusion-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Rats Are Fleeing the Sinking Collusion Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative was always implausible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One, the Washington swamp of fixers such as Paul Manafort and John and Tony Podesta was mostly bipartisan and predated Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two, the Trump administration\u2019s Russia policies were far tougher on Vladimir Putin than were those of Barack Obama. Trump confronted Russia in Syria, upped defense spending, increased sanctions and kept the price of oil down through massive new U.S. energy production. He did not engineer a Russian \u201creset\u201d or get caught on a hot mic offering a self-interested hiatus in tensions with Russia in order to help his own re-election bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three, Russia has a long history of trying to warp U.S. elections that both predated Trump and earned only prior lukewarm pushback from the Obama administration.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amgreatness.com\/2019\/05\/22\/federal-rats-are-fleeing-the-sinking-collusion-ship\/link\"><br><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amgreatness.com\/2019\/05\/22\/federal-rats-are-fleeing-the-sinking-collusion-ship\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative was always implausible. One, the Washington swamp of fixers such as Paul Manafort and John and Tony Podesta was mostly bipartisan and predated Trump. Two, the Trump administration\u2019s Russia policies were far tougher on Vladimir Putin than were those of Barack Obama. Trump confronted [&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":[1074],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-353","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11147,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/colluders-on-the-loose\/","url_meta":{"origin":11845,"position":0},"title":"Colluders on the Loose","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 17, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"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\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":11026,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-real-russian-disaster\/","url_meta":{"origin":11845,"position":1},"title":"The Real Russian Disaster","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Donald Trump has said a lot of silly stuff about Russia, from joking about Vladimir Putin helping to find Hillary\u2019s deleted emails, to na\u00efve musings about the extent of Russian interference into Western democratic elections. But far more important than what he has said\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":10399,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/putins-playthings\/","url_meta":{"origin":11845,"position":2},"title":"Putin\u2019s Playthings","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review \u00a0 Putin will do anything to advance Russia\u2019s interests because his country is in terrible shape. \u00a0 About a year ago, Donald Trump Jr. met with a mysterious Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya. Trump Jr. was purportedly eager to receive information that could damage Hillary\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Comey&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Comey","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/comey\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11743,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/mueller-report-confirms-the-steele-dossier-belongs-in-the-dustbin-of-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":11845,"position":3},"title":"Mueller report confirms the Steele dossier belongs in the dustbin of history","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 28, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill The Trump dossier \u2014 compiled by Christopher Steele, commissioned by Fusion GPS and paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee \u2014 has tied up U.S. politics for more than two years with its\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mueller&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mueller","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/mueller\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11323,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-police-were-not-policed\/","url_meta":{"origin":11845,"position":4},"title":"The Police Were Not Policed","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review No doubt Russia must be watched for its chronic efforts to sow more chaos in American elections \u2014 despite Barack Obama\u2019s na\u00efve assertion in 2016 that no entity could possibly ever rig a U.S. election, given the decentralization of state voting. Lately the heads\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;FBI&quot;","block_context":{"text":"FBI","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/fbi\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11012,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-paradoxes-of-the-mueller-investigation\/","url_meta":{"origin":11845,"position":5},"title":"The Paradoxes of the Mueller Investigation","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review They are numerous, and none of them are good news for President Trump\u2019s opponents. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has indicted 13 Russian nationals for allegedly conspiring to sow confusion in the 2016 presidential election. 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