a foreign military intelligence service to attack our election to help trump to the presidency, that is clearly the biggest political scandal in modern american history by a mile. we don't know yet whether it happened or not. not yet. the special counsel is investigating. congressional committees are more or less investigating. and the american news media is investigating. whether or not the trump campaign did it, one way to stab in the heart aggressive american reporting on that subject is to lay traps for american journalists who are reporting on it. trick news organizations to report what appears to what happened. after the fact blow that reporting up. you then hurt the credibility of that news organization. you also cast a shadow over any similar reporting in the future. whether or not it's true, right? even if it's true. you plant a permanent question, a permanent asterisk, a