The dishonest revisionism of Russia Collusion dead-ender Joe Scarborough

In the Free Press, Eli Lake writes that though he didn’t deserve President Donald Trump’s insult, the recently deceased Robert Mueller tarnished his legacy by failing to debunk the phony “Russia Collusion” scandal. 

“A phony scandal, Eli?” MS Now host Joe Scarborough tweeted. “The US Senate’s Intelligence Committee concluded the 2016 campaign created a ‘grave counterintelligence threat’ that made Trump’s campaign susceptible to ‘malign Russian influence.’ The Committee’s Chairman? Marco Rubio.” 

The thing is, Morning Joe didn’t spend years panicmongering over “susceptibility” of some low-level 2016 Trump campaign staffers falling under Putin’s influence. No, his audience experienced the full “Russia Collusion” immersion experience, where every hysterical conspiracy du jour was explored. 

Scarborough’s central accusation was that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin had blackmailed the president of the United States to do his “bidding” with kompromat. Sometimes, Morning Joe merely speculated that the president was “either an agent of Russia” or “a useful