{"id":381109,"date":"2018-10-15T20:01:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T19:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russian-collusion-is-a-red-herring-while-a-fourth-reich-rises\/"},"modified":"2018-10-15T20:01:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T19:01:32","slug":"russian-collusion-is-a-red-herring-while-a-fourth-reich-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russian-collusion-is-a-red-herring-while-a-fourth-reich-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian \u201cCollusion\u201d is a Red Herring While a Fourth Reich Rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As the 2018 U.S. midterm elections approach, there is still no evidence of \u2018collusion\u2019 between the campaign of President Donald J. Trump and the Russian government after nearly two years of inquiry. Thus far in the Department of Justice\u2019s investigation led by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III, only a trail of corruption involving Trump associates has been discovered. None of their wrongdoings connect to the Russian nationals also indicted in the probe, including the illicit lobbying by former campaign chairman Paul Manafort in Ukraine which actually went against Russia\u2019s interests on behalf of the EU. One can anticipate that more misdeeds by his cronies will be uncovered given that corruption in Washington grows on trees, some of which may even implicate Trump himself. However, if there were anything incriminating at the level of high treason, the likelihood that it wouldn\u2019t have been unearthed already after such an exhaustive inquest relying on splitting hairs for indictments is slim.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin has also fulfilled the need of a scapegoat across the Atlantic for the UK\u2019s Brexit referendum. Mueller has examined emails from the shadowy British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, but seemingly only to scrutinize whether they contain evidence of intrigue between Trump and Russia. The UK-based voter profiling company, chaired by former Trump campaign and Breitbart CEO Stephen K. Bannon and owned by the mysterious right-wing billionaire Robert Mercer,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/10\/russian-collusion-is-a-red-herring-while-a-fourth-reich-rises\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 2018 U.S. midterm elections approach, there is still no evidence of \u2018collusion\u2019 between the campaign of President Donald J. Trump and the Russian government after nearly two years of inquiry. Thus far in the Department of Justice\u2019s investigation led by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III, only a trail of corruption involving Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}