We here in Palm Beach County, Florida, have firsthand information that what President Donald Trump calls the “Russia, Russia, Russia hoax” was no hoax at all.

Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential campaign has been resuscitated by Trump in a desperate effort of deflection, as his own supporters call for transparency in the mountain of crimes against teenage girls still hidden in the Jeffrey Epstein files.

So, lately, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has been bolstering the specious claim that Russian interference in the election of Trump in 2016 was mostly a fantasy cooked up by his political opponents in the United States.

Gabbard blames the Obama administration for changing the intelligence assessment to focus on, as she put it, “not if but how Moscow attempted to influence the outcome of the U.S. election.”

This would be a good time to point out to anybody who imagines Gabbard is being truthful that there is no “if” in Russia’s attempt to support Trump’s........

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