Russiagate: Heroes of the Hoax
Today’s ranking of the heroes of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax lists individuals and groups who bucked the trend of ignorance in media and politics and instead provided helpful advice or…
Deception & Misdirection
Sixteen Thirty Fund Funneling “Dark Money” into Left-Wing PACs
A “dark money” giant is funneling millions of dollars into the 2020 election to tilt the outcome in favor of Democrats—while complaining about money in politics. The Sixteen Thirty Fund…
Full of Schiff: Adam Schiff Cooks Up a New Conspiracy Theory
On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, released a complaint from a Department of Homeland Security analyst who claims DHS and Trump administration officials…
The Nastiest Hoaxsters of Russiagate
A contributor to both New York magazine and MSNBC, Jonathan Chait went all-in on the most outlandish of the salacious collusion rumors. Nobody given a modestly respectable public platform could…
Russiagate: Five Outrageous Ironies
A major objective of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation and the subsequent probe by Special Counsel Robert Mueller was to find out “whether individual(s) associated with the Trump campaign are…
Bannon Charges Show the “Other” Donor Intent Problem
Usually the abuses of donor intent we analyze manifest themselves as a bequest of a now-deceased pro-business or conservative donor falling under the control of the left-progressive management of the…
Update of Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax Archive
The remaining entries for Obama/Comey-Era Officials have been uploaded to the archive, including such notables as Andrew McCabe, Robert Mueller, Barack Obama, Susan Rice, Rod Rosenstein, and Peter Strzok. In…
Introducing the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax Archive
While the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory was exposed as a hoax, a different sort of collusion was real. Sometimes wittingly, but often just witlessly, hundreds of figures in the media, politics,…
The Cast of the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax
The following is an archive of “bios” of more than 200 of the most prominent people who kept the Trump-Russia collusion hoax alive. For an introduction to the archive, see…
Reporting and Then “Reporting”: All the News That’s Fit to Spin
This past weekend, Americans discovered the identity of the man who provided most of the information for the Steele dossier—the salacious, poorly sourced, and now discredited document that provided the…