What is news anymore? When you have "old standard" publications like the New York Times and Washington Post creating stories based solely in rumor or statements from unidentified and unsubstantiated sources then it's difficult to believe anything anymore. It seems today that the only pre-requisite for a good and valid news story is that it be anti-Trump.
Here to date there has been zero evidence brought forth from any of the many investigations that there was any collusion between Trump, Trump's campaign and any third party from any other Nation, including Russia. The ONLY proven and demonstrated manipulation of the Campaign that has yet been revealed is of the Clinton campaign with regards to things that would give her an advantage over Bernie Sanders.
I can't remember from where I have heard this or read it in the past but one statement that was made regarding of the taking over of a Nation was to capture and control the media outlets and the outlets that dissimilate information to the public. By controlling that information the public, or most of them, could be misled and controlled to some point.
In our nation today the media is, for the most part, entirely controlled and managed by liberals who have no problem implementing their agenda through the media's reporting or selections of what stories make the news and what ones don't. There has been unprecedented, high 90%, negative reporting regarding Donald Trump and it appears a determined and uniform agreement to actively try and overthrow the Government by attacking the President. One only has to listen to a montage of various press reports about Donald Trump and it's evident that there is collusion between the various competing media outlets to sway public opinion. It matters not what media outlet you listen to they all seem to be reading from the same page and using the same key words, with respect to the President and various stories. In some cases it is a determined attempt to use exactly the same terminology so as to attempt to create a story rather than report on one and in every case it's negative to the President and a concerted attempt to make him appear as inept or deviously deceptive.
To me it seems that the only collusion that exist out there to affect an election is that between the Democrats and most media outlets to overthrow an elected President. When you think about it there has never been such a defeat in history. You have a candidate that has spent more money and received extremely positive press reporting and almost every other advantage that would enable them to win an election, down to receiving information about upcoming debate questions beforehand, yet they get beat by a previously non-political candidate whom received unprecedented negative press coverage prior to the election. You had just about every possible thing benefiting Hillary Clinton and pushing for her election including polls that highly favored her yet in the end she lost. It surely must have been truly devastating for her given every advantage she had. I'm sure she was told all along that she had it in the bag which is why her true character came out in the end when she skipped many states all together.
Hillary was a person that, according to most that knew her intimately, was a person that felt she was above everyone else and tolerated others around her only for her own political benefit. She held most all of America in contempt and was actually caught making a truthful admission when she called over 50% of Americans deplorable. She meant this and was as truthful of a statement as she ever made to reflect that which she actually thought. Hillary felt truly entitled to the job of President and felt it was not only promised to her but that it was hers in waiting and given every advantage she was, before the election, was sure of the outcome up and until the actual votes started coming in.
Naturally she was so devastated that she was inconsolable and unable to speak to her supporters. This was the job that was hers, promised to her, that she was sure she was going to get. Only to have to face being defeated by a non-politician whom everyone loathed or so she thought. Donald Trump, those who voted for him, and most all other Americans were beneath her and yet all this that was hers for the taking suddenly was yanked away.
The story, alluded to in the above subject line, may well be false but given the family and what they have done in the past one could easily believe it was true. Trouble is that there is a huge amount of fake, false, news out there coming from both sides and negative toward both sides. There may have been a day when a news media outlet pledged to report the news in an impartial way but that day is truly history and today's media world is one where it's apparently justified to base a story on rumor or speculation provided that rumor or speculation meets certain qualifications, one being that it is negative toward the current elected President. Likewise it's equally as tempting for far right leaning organizations to scoop up and report on Hillary Clinton. Still it's hard to defend Clinton when you have certain proven things like Bill Clinton's meeting with the former Attorney General right before Hillary met with the FBI in a meeting and questioning where she was neither put under oath and was then given a clean bill of political health by the FBI director after he read a list of indictable things Hillary was known to have done. She was given her freedom in one ridiculous statement, by the Director, "that no reasonable prosecutor would go after her" thus the FBI wasn't going to recommend indictment. So fake news is so easy to believe given the absurd real news surrounding the Clintons and the past election.