In an grievance-filled 780-word op-ed submitted to Newsweek, indicted felon Donald Trump rehashes a series of grievances regarding the 2016–not 2020–election, again claiming the “Deep State” acted against his candidacy and that those forces–led by Hillary Clinton and James Comey–are again out to thwart his fourth attempt at the presidency.
Quoting the Fox propaganda network to characterize investigations into his campaign’s admitted connections and discussions with Russia regarding ways in which the Kremlin could help his campaign, Trump claims Barack Obama and Joe Biden attempted to “villify” him through these accusations. (Note that Fox used the word “villify” while Trump attempts to falsely shape the term to be Obama’s and Biden’s. Trump continues his lies and misstatements throughout the piece, even mischaracterizing completed investigations by his own political appointees that found no malfeasance into the investigations into Trump’s actions. Trump’s ongoing delusions have created a history in which his actions that actually happened no longer exist and now he is but an innocent victim of a plot to undermine him for no reason other than his proclaimed love of the American people.
“The Durham Report proves that the key figures involved knew from the start that the Russia Collusion conspiracy theory was a lie. The FBI launched their witch hunt without a scrap of legitimate evidence—and when they came upon exonerating information time after time, they covered it up and kept the hoax going forward,” Trump writes.
“They knew the truth, yet they put our country through hell. As savage and cruel as the Russia Hoax was for me, my family, my staff, and so many innocent bystanders, the real victims were the American People,” he continues. “The destruction this hoax caused to America is almost incalculable. It subverted our democracy, it threatened our security, and it endangered our freedom. At a critical moment when we should have been reducing tensions with Russia, the Russia Hoax stoked mass hysteria that helped drive Russia straight into the arms of China.”
As is consistent with the Trump campaign, the missive includes no significant policy platforms or initiatives.