The
collusion circus is coming for Jill Stein. The US Senate Intelligence
Committee has asked the 2016 Green Party presidential candidate to
hand over documents amid accusations she was part of a Russian plot
to elect Trump.
The news
was met with delight by some pro-Hillary Clinton Democrats who have
long expressed a visceral hatred of Stein simply because she had the
audacity to run for president — an act which they say hurt their
candidate’s chances of winning by unnecessarily splitting the vote
on the left. In the greatest democracy in the world (supposedly)
Stein committed the unforgivable sin of running for office and
winning some votes. There can only be one explanation for this, the
‘Russiagaters’ say: Stein was a Russian plant, designed to pull
votes away from Clinton to tip the election in Trump’s favor. In
their increasingly warped minds, nothing else could possibly make
sense.
Never
mind that Stein also ran for president in 2012, ran for governor in
Massachusetts in 2002, as a candidate for the Massachusetts House of
Representatives in 2004, for Massachusetts Secretary of the
Commonwealth in 2006 and for Massachusetts governor again in 2010 —
all of which she lost. Given her track record of not winning, it’s
hard to believe Putin would choose Stein to pin his hopes on as the
candidate to pull most votes away from Clinton in 2016. But anything
is possible, right? Maybe Stein has been a secret Russian asset lying
in wait all this time. That, apparently, is what some loony Democrats
would have us all believe.
In the
real world, however, there is absolutely no reason to believe Stein
has anything to do with an alleged Russian plot to elect Trump —
evidence for which also remains elusive. Stein’s primary
transgressions are as follows: In 2015, she attended a gala event to
mark RT’s tenth anniversary in Moscow, where she (god forbid) sat
at the same table as Vladimir Putin. Rumors abound that Russia paid
for Stein’s trip to Moscow, an accusation which she strongly denies
(and claims she has the receipts to prove it). Perhaps even worse
than setting foot on Russian soil though, Stein has often dared to
express opinions that don’t sit well with establishment Democrats
(or Republicans). And well, that’s basically it as far as the
evidence for her “collusion” with Russia goes.
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