NEW YORK — There has been no evidence presented indicating any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to usurp the 2016 presidential election and it is “just a travesty that this is being dragged out,” exclaimed John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
“You know, we’ve seen Washington in the past year awash about leaks about Trump, his campaign, his presidency,” stated Bolton. “I would think if there was any real evidence that would have leaked out. That would have been too good for somebody to withhold. It hasn’t happened yet.”
I’ve read the book shattered about Hillary Clinton’s campaign. I was fascinated to read that in the days after her defeat unable to come up with an explanation as to why she had lost – like maybe she was not a very good candidate who didn’t have appealing policies for the American people – her campaign staff decided that it was the Russians that had caused them the election.
Now since then, Hillary Clinton has had her own long list of excuses why she didn’t win, but certainly that germinated the idea of the Russian collusion, the Russian connection. And there has not been any evidence.
Bolton was referring to the book “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign,” in which authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes quote Clinton insiders explaining how immediately after the election Clinton’s team sought to place the blame for her loss on the narrative of Russian interference.
