On Russia Collusion the Scaffold of Lies Has Fallen | The American Spectator

There comes a moment in every decaying republic when the lies no longer hold. The slogans fade. The headlines rot. The euphemisms curdle. And those who built the scaffold of deceit find themselves suddenly visible — exposed to a people no longer interested in pretending.

We have reached that moment.

What began as a desperate campaign tactic — Russia! Hacking! Pee tapes! — has now collapsed into the most damaging political hoax in American history. It was not just a dirty trick. It was a coordinated operation to reverse the outcome of a presidential election using the organs of the state, the megaphone of the press, and the cowardice of institutions.

And now the receipts are in.

Tulsi Gabbard, in her improbable but timely role as Director of National Intelligence, has declassified documents proving that Barack Obama and his senior officials knowingly overrode actual intelligence to invent a narrative of “Russian collusion.” This wasn’t politicization. It was fabrication. The intelligence state was not used to serve the republic — it was used to sabotage it.

Treason in a Tailored Suit

There is no polite word for what occurred. It was, by the plain definition of the term, treason: an attempt to remove a duly elected president by illegal means. Not with tanks, but with leaks. Not by gunfire, but by talking points.

And it worked — for a time. Trump’s presidency was hobbled from the outset. Every decision, every appointment, every foreign engagement was filtered through the manufactured cloud of Russian suspicion. The people who concocted it assumed they would never be found out. That they would leave behind only the stain, not the fingerprints.

They miscalculated.

The House Built on Deceit

The Russia hoax was never meant to stand alone. When it faltered, it was reinforced — by media hysteria, impeachment theatre, COVID absolutism, mail-in voting, and the moral hallucinations of a culture that began to insist that men could give birth and toddlers could choose their gender.

It was all scaffolding—designed to obscure, distract, and deny the most basic truths.

This wasn’t just about removing Trump. It was about removing the possibility of any future president like him: populist, nationalist, untamed, and, most importantly, unapproved. The system would not survive another breach of its illusion of consent.

So the media became not watchdogs but collaborators. They parroted. They promoted. They punished dissent. And when the lie began to unravel, they pivoted — to Epstein, to January 6, to anything that might move the eye from the exposed gears of the machine.

But Truth Returns

And yet the scaffold of lies has fallen. Not with a bang, but a shuddering collapse. The disclosures from former intel chiefs are damning. The press, losing viewers and trust in equal measure, is flailing. Some legacy outlets now jettison their anchors like a lifeboat leaving the Titanic.

The institutions built to lie are beginning to rot. The audience has walked out of the theatre mid-show.

Now comes the question of justice. Will there be indictments? Perp walks? Or will it end as these things often do — in shoulder shrugs and gentle retirements, as the guilty retreat behind memoir deals and foundation boards?

That depends on whether America is still a republic, or merely a brand.

What Must Come Next

The scaffold may be gone, but the ruin remains. If there is to be recovery — real recovery — it must begin not with bipartisanship, but with reckoning. With names. With admissions. With consequences.

We are owed the truth: about Russiagate, about the FBI, about COVID, about Epstein, about who really governs and in whose interest.

And we must be willing to tell that truth even if it wounds. Especially if it wounds.

Because a civilization that cannot speak plainly about its betrayals will not survive them.

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