In early March, Terry Moran of ABC News predicted a “huge … reckoning“ for the press if special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation did not find President Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 election.

The reckoning is now. And the consequences bode ill not just for media companies’ bottom line but for national security and electoral integrity.

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