this is really funny to me
in 2017, when there were ambiguous claims leaked by Obama admin intelligence agencies about Trump-Russia collusion, it turned into years of media headlines, everything was another piece in the puzzle, slowly closing in on the great conspiracy of how the Trump admin was in league with Putin in winning the 2016 election.
I remember this time well. Trump-Russia collusion was all anyone talked about for 3 years. It was supposedly the biggest scandal in U.S. history, and media was obsessed with it. (they gave themselves Pulitzer prizes for their reporting! lol)
So... the Trump-Russia thing was all a lie, of course.
But look at the contrast with today.
The Director of National Intelligence ( a former democrat until just a couple years ago) comes out with straightforward allegations that the Obama admin used fake intelligence to subvert the incoming President. An extremely scandalous claim.
And if you scroll across the legacy media landscape, it's like nothing even happened. None of them are the least bit curious about if it's true or not.
With Trump-Russia, the slightest innuendo of whiff of something drove those outlets into hysterics. "Trump's son met with a Russian once! WOW!!! The walls are closing in!" Every little thing was a major headline.
Every time someone in the Trump orbit was shown to have shaken hands with a Russian, the media went into a frenzy at how it was all coming together.
You all remember it, don't you?
Now they are trying to cover themselves and say "All we ever said was that Russians were meddling in the election!" hahaha,
as if the whole affair wasn't constantly framed around the Trump admin colluding with Russia,
as if the Trump administration itself wasn't constantly under investigation for Russian collusion that whole time.
the attempt to memory-hole all of that is truly impressive, I must say.
of course, they have to do this because of what DNI Gabbard revealed.
specifically - intelligence community consensus shifted from "Russia is not a threat to our election" right before the 2016 election...
and then right after the election, Obama suddenly ordered a new IC report that concluded "Russia subverted our election to help Trump win", (even despite warnings from their own analysts that they were using bad intel.)
and all of Obama's IC heads then pushed that narrative for years afterward, knowing there was nothing to it.
it looks really bad, doesn't it?