What the embracing of this story by leftists proves is that there isn’t an atom of difference between left and right when it comes to using lies to get their way. Just as Hannity or Limbaugh ignore such evidence of lies if those lies hurt a democrat, MSNBC, CNN, the NYT etc. etc. etc. will let this go away with a shrug, or maybe a single with a title like “How the Media Got It Wrong On Russia (and Why It Doesn’t Matter, Because Trump is Still Evil)”.
It’s not about the truth, and never was. It was always about Democrat double standards: thinking Russia is a threat is a joke believed by foolish Republicans…until Democrats need an excuse for their embarrassing loss of an election that was theirs to win; “Not accepting the results of an election is un-American”…until Democrats didn’t like the outcome; political violence is wrong…until Democrats decided that letting stupid rightwing hate be exposed didn’t relieve their crybaby feels, so threats, intimidation, riots, shutting down free expression and gunfire were okay IF done to The Right People.
This was a lie embraced for one reason: to interfere with a presidential election you couldn’t win on issues because your candidate was the only person worse than the one who won.
