Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive

While partisan deniers will persist, it’s a settled fact that former President Barack Obama and candidate Hillary Clinton created and spread the lie that Russia colluded with Donald Trump to help him win the 2016 presidential election.

Sherman Frederick

It wasn’t a Russia thing. It was a domestic sabotage of democracy.

The now-declassified documents prove it three different ways.

Of course, the deniers will deny because that’s what people do in this divided climate.

For example, consider this post a friend sent. It’s classic deflection by the left, sensing this whole scam is unraveling.

Pathetic. Let’s talk about anything but the issue at hand, which is that our government — not Russia — conspired to subvert the will of the people.

Look, anyone with an open mind can see now that the Democratic Party establishment lied about Russia and Trump, and then used crooked intelligence officials to boost the lie to scuttle the effectiveness of the incoming president. And, sad to say, it worked to an extent because the rightfully elected president, Donald J. Trump, struggled through his first term and lost his bid for re-election to Joe Biden.

However, he came back with a vengeance in 2024 to regain the presidency, and now the truth of it all is coming home to roost on the heads of the biggest luminaries in the Democratic Party.

The party may never recover. And given what they did, maybe it shouldn’t.

The behavior of Hillary stinks to high heaven. People of all good character should shun her and her husband, who took millions of dollars from Russian entities in speaking fees after his election and while Hillary was running for president. Obama’s behavior is worse than President Nixon’s, and there should be consequences for it. Impeachment is off the table, but he can be tried for high crimes against democracy. If we don’t, then this kind of treasonous stuff will be tried again and again at the highest levels.

As Obama, Clinton and Democrats of all stripes have told us during their 10-year jihad against Trump, “no one is above the law.”

It must be so.

(Sherman R. Frederick is a longtime Nevada journalist and a member of the Nevada Press Association Hall of Fame. He can be reached at shermfrederick@gmail.com, and you can see more of his writing at shermanfrederick.substack.com.)