That claim gained considerable air time on Fox (and especially with Sean Hannity, the network's leading Trump apologist) until Fox's own website retracted the story as unsubstantiated. And the deliberate effort to spread misinformation is particularly obnoxious because it casts a murder victim who can't defend himself in a negative light, much to the chagrin of his grieving family. And, of course, there's the matter of it not being the least bit true — as recently as this week, former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan, testifying under oath to the House Intelligence Committee, reminded everyone that there was not only plenty of evidence of Russian hacking and manipulation of the election but considerable evidence that the Russians had attempted to suborn Mr. Trump's associates to act on their behalf as well.