Not in name but in substance. On October 31st 2016. Days before the election:
He sent Comey a fiery letter saying the FBI chief may have broken the law and pointed to a potentially greater controversy: “In my communications with you and other top officials in the national security community, it has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government…The public has a right to know this information.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politic...ing-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump/
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So, we have this garbage dossier floating around in late 2016 that the press knows about; Harry Reid knew about it and probably John McCain. All great friends of Donald Trump.
Instead of actually reporting on the dossier [because that could get into who funded it] Mother Jones reports on its substance. Sometime later Buzz Feed would pull the trigger and go Full Monty by publishing the dossier—but that was after the election. Since the cat was out of the bag,
WashPo and the rest ran full blast with what we now know, today, was sheer tabloid.
Keep in mind, you are defending this shit.
After that, it was wall to wall Russia-Russia-Russia. The dossier primed the political pump so that by Spring of 2017 Trump had an albatross hung around his neck called the Mullet Investigation. Mullet comes up empty. Weeks later, literally weeks after he wraps up, a mysterious leaker steps up [his personal lawyer is quoted in my sig] and we’re off to the Ukraine races.
That too, was a fail. Clinesmith is part of The Resistance—they caught it in one of his texts.
They will never stop as long as Trump is in office. Instead of worrying about Russians maybe you should worry more about our own domestic subversives.