Collusion After All

Donald Trump has spent much of the last year gleefully declaring that Robert Mueller's punting on charging the President and the stillborn impeachment effort are proof there was "no collusion."

And then yesterday, the Trump administration very quietly released a phone transcript from before Trump was sworn into office that proves there was collusion after all (details here).

Michael Flynn, at that time Trump's pick for national security adviser, blatantly colluded with Russia and attempted to undermine the Obama administration weeks before Trump was sworn into office. And then Flynn lied about that conversation, a crime for which he was charged and then later admitted and pleaded guilty.

Trump has been spending the last several months trying to make admitted criminal Flynn out to be an innocent victim and the law enforcement officials involved in investigating and pursuing him as villains. Indeed, another one of them was fired yesterday (details here).

Now Trump undoubtedly will continue to refer to the "Russia hoax." Everyone who hears that, however, needs to be reminded that the Trump administration has admitted it was not a hoax but, in fact, that it was all true.