QUITE often, the peddling of a conspiracy theory is a form of confession: a window into how a suspicious mind thinks that the world works. President Donald Trump says that federal probes into Russian attacks on the presidential election of 2016 are a “hoax” confected by Democrats to explain Hillary Clinton’s defeat, and are now kept alive by what he calls the “Deep State Justice Department”.
These are heady days for believers in that plot. On January 29th a Trump bogey-man, the deputy director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, abruptly quit his post and went on leave pending his formal retirement. Mr McCabe’s wife, the conspiracy-minded note, is a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully in 2015 for a state Senate seat in Virginia, helped by six-figure campaign contributions from a close Clinton ally. Incredibly, at least to Mr Trump and his supporters, in early 2016 Mr McCabe was allowed to oversee a probe into Mrs Clinton’s improper handling of secret...Continue reading
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