"...I’m hearing quite a few people other than Donald Trump try to make the case that the Russia investigation was the Democrats’ version of Trump’s denial of the election results today. That is absurd. First of all, the Russia investigation was initiated by a bunch of Republican G-men, one of whom actually sabotaged Hillary Clinton’s election. In fact, if you asked most Democrats if they blamed James Comey or Vladimir Putin for Clinton’s loss, Comey would win by a mile. After all, he not only sabotaged Clinton he kept the Russia investigation secret during the election!
Virtually no one believed that the votes were changed or that Trump’s election was stolen. We were all very careful to use words like “interference” which is not the same thing at all. The concern was that Trump welcoming interference by a foreign power to help him win was just a teensy bit unethical and it was fair to wonder if some deal had been made to do it. Considering how he is trying to do end runs around the electoral college and use partisan legislators to usurp the will of the voters, I’d say that suspicion was well-founded. The man is a cheater — he’s doing it right now in front of our eyes. The fact that his loss was too big to pull it off doesn’t make him any less of a shameless, conniving fraudster."
Digby