After special counsel Robert Mueller handed down his indictment against 13 Russians and three entities on Feb. 16, a strange thing happened. As if having received orders, nobody in the mainstream media talked anymore about how “Trump colluded with Russia,” a topic the media had obsessed about for more than a year.
This, of course, does not mean the media outlets suddenly realized they had embarrassed themselves. The pundits instead made up new attack lines against Trump. The latest consensus on the left is that Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign is an “act of war,” comparable to Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 terrorist attack. Trump’s inaction and incompetence, the pundits charged, were not acceptable.
