"Lokhova’s lawsuit exposed the outline the intelligence community used to spread the Russia collusion fiction. It also revealed that the United Kingdom held a prominent role in the plot development."

In the Federalist, Margo Cleveland writes in part,

...If the media repeats the false narrative often enough, it becomes the conventional wisdom—it becomes the media’s truth—whether it is the press pushing the Russia collusion conspiracy with reports of the Steele’s dossier, Carter Page’s supposed spying-inducing behavior, George Papadopoulos’ purported inside knowledge of the WikiLeaks hack, the Trump Tower meeting, or stories that Trump’s team softened the Republican National Convention’s platform on Russia. The stories began with innuendo wrapped in unrelated facts, leaks from unnamed sources seemingly verified elements of the tale, and a complicit media then wove the strands into a growing Russia collusion narrative.

Unraveling that truth, though, is time-consuming and requires a depth of details that few Americans care to have. Trump understands this, which is why the terms “SpyGate” and “Fake News” regularly appear in his Twitter feed: Everyone understands what he means, even if they’ve never heard of a random academic in the U.K. named Svetlana Lokhova.

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