With CNN and MSNBC both reportedly going through hard times, it’s worth recalling perhaps the greatest corporate media hoax in recent memory. From the very beginning of the first Trump presidency in 2017, practically every journalist in America was frothing at the mouth about the latest national security scare: “Russia hacked the election!” This story would turn out to be not just a pernicious lie, but also evidence of an insidious symbiotic relationship between leftwing media, the DNC, and alphabet soup DOJ agencies.
The claim “Russia hacked the election” suggests that somebody broke into voting machines and physically changed votes. It suggests that the software used to conduct and tabulate the 2016 election was in some way compromised by Russian agents. But that never happened. Nobody even alleged that it happened. So what actually did…
