Ron HartIt was a steamy Fourth of July week in Washington, so humid that CNN was sticking to its story.
Since it began, I have said in this column that this Russian investigation was a media-contrived witch hunt. When you are a billionaire president and the most powerful person in the United States, and our government’s FBI, intelligence agencies and the DOJ can go after you with no evidence, what chance would you and I have if they wanted us? It should scare us all.
But the Russian “scandal” pushed by CNN is over. Waffle House even named a breakfast meal called the “CNN Trump Russian Conspiracy”: It’s toast. At lunch they serve the “Van Jones Nothing Burger” with slander on the side.
Granted, some of the bumps have been of his own making, but the Trump presidency so far has been as bumpy as the right lane of an Atlanta street. But when the media spin a narrative that you are in the pocket of Russia with “unnamed sources” and relentless fervor, it is hard to focus.
Just to remind you, the story the left-wing media has been advancing to undermine our president goes a little like this: Donald J. Trump, a man who has lived the American dream, decided to become a Russian agent in his early 70s. He somehow persuaded fellow septuagenarian Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, a son of the South, sitting U.S. senator and former U.S. attorney, to join in this scheme.