{"id":11866,"date":"2019-06-13T18:15:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T01:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11866"},"modified":"2019-06-13T18:15:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T01:15:01","slug":"the-2020-news-cycle-will-look-very-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-2020-news-cycle-will-look-very-different\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2020 News Cycle Will Look Very Different"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Russia collusion narrative and associated Robert Mueller hysteria are all but over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mueller\u2019s obstruction of justice narrative involving the non-crime of collusion is ending, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s tax-return psychodrama is going the way of the Emoluments Clause, the Logan Act, the 25th Amendment and the comical in-house coup attempt of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What takes the place of Mueller and \u201cthe noose is tightening\u201d bombshells? Perhaps the new narratives involving Inspector General Michael Horowitz and FISA abuse, or Attorney General William Barr\u2019s investigation into the origins of the Russia collusion probe\u2014far quieter, far more serious.<a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/06\/09\/new-narratives-in-2020\/link\">00:00<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The media for three years obsessed over a false \u201cTrump did it\u201d story. But in the next 17 months, the storyline may change from the myth of the \u201cwalls are closing in\u201d on the president to the reality that Obama-era officials committed serial felonies\u2014from perjury and lying to federal officials, to leaking classified documents, spying illegally on a political campaign, deceiving a FISA court, and obstructing justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/06\/09\/new-narratives-in-2020\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The Russia collusion narrative and associated Robert Mueller hysteria are all but over. Mueller\u2019s obstruction of justice narrative involving the non-crime of collusion is ending, too. Donald Trump\u2019s tax-return psychodrama is going the way of the Emoluments Clause, the Logan Act, the 25th Amendment and the comical in-house coup [&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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-35o","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11817,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/progressives-face-a-bleak-post-mueller-landscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":11866,"position":0},"title":"Progressives Face a Bleak Post-Mueller Landscape","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Democrats have grown infuriated by Attorney General William Barr\u2019s indifference to their hysteria over the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. 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":12167,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/target-trump-forever\/","url_meta":{"origin":11866,"position":1},"title":"Target Trump Forever","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The Left has shown that the collusion exoneration last year by the heralded Robert Mueller investigation\u2014all 22-months, the \u201cdream team,\u201d and $34 million of it\u2014meant absolutely nothing. Nor did it matter that Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz found no justification of \u201ccollusion\u201d\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11139,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/mueller-at-the-crossroads\/","url_meta":{"origin":11866,"position":2},"title":"Mueller at the Crossroads","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel in May 2017 in reaction to a media still gripped by near hysteria over the inexplicable defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. 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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":11845,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/federal-rats-are-fleeing-the-sinking-collusion-ship\/","url_meta":{"origin":11866,"position":4},"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. 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\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":11554,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/one-eyed-jack-law\/","url_meta":{"origin":11866,"position":5},"title":"One-Eyed-Jack Law","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Robert Mueller\u2019s legal team may write a damning report on Trump\u2019s ethics, based mostly on flipping minor former business associates of Trump\u2019s and transient campaign officials by threatening them with long prison sentences. 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