[National Review] Now that the media-Democrat complex has been caught in its own web, there is some serious skullduggery underway. It’s revisionist history, Soviet style. You know, the kind where the bad stuff gets "disappeared." The New York Times is disappearing its claim that Obama investigated Trump. For four months, the mainstream press was very content to have Americans believe -- indeed, they encouraged Americans to believe -- that a vigorous national-security investigation of the Trump presidential campaign was ongoing. "A counterintelligence investigation," the New York Times called it.
As I contended in a column this weekend, it was essential for the media and Democrats to promote the perception of an investigation because the scandalous narrative they were peddling -- namely, that Trump-campaign operatives conspired with the Putin regime to "hack the election" -- required it. Russia obviously did not hack the election.
Russian intelligence services may have hacked e-mail accounts of prominent Democrats, although even that has not been proved. And there is even less evidence of collusion by the Trump campaign in that effort -- as one would expect, in light of the intelligence agencies’ conclusion that the Russians sought to hack accounts of both major parties.