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John Brennan’s case for Trump collusion is stupid

By Eddie Scarry
Published August 18, 2018 4:00am ET
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John Brennan’s case for Trump collusion is stupid
John Brennan, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), testifies during a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, June 16, 2016. | (Pete Marovich/Bloomberg)

The repeated media lie that President Trump in 2016 explicitly directed Russia to hack the Democrats’ emails got new life thanks to former CIA director and drama queen John Brennan.

Brennan microwaved the falsehood Thursday in an op-ed for the New York Times, calling Trump’s denials of Russian collusion “hogwash.”

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