In October 2016, Barack Obama said “no serious person” would suggest it was possible to rig an American election.

Turns out, for once Barry was telling the truth, but it wasn’t from lack of trying — not just by his own administration, but also by Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, the crooked FBI and, last but not least, the Russians, who sold the disinformation the Clinton Crime Family used to try to fix the election.

Forget dirty tricks — this was an attempted coup, as the House Intelligence Committee memo makes clear. These banana-republic thugs were trying to overthrow a duly elected president of the United States.

The Daily Mail sums it up pretty well: “FBI Memo reveals James Comey used dodgy ‘golden showers’ dossier to get Trump team surveillance warrant even though top officials KNEW it was paid for by Hillary and British spy who wrote it was desperate to keep him out of office.”

In case you’ve forgotten, Comey told a Congressional committee last year that the fake dossier was “salacious, unverified.”

But he used it anyway, over and over and over again. His fired No. 2 corrupt G-man, Andrew McCabe, whose wife took $700,000 from Clinton cut-outs in 2015, said under oath that the fake dossier was the only “evidence” the crooked feds had to get court approval to surveil Trump’s campaign.

Without the fake dossier, there is no Russian collusion or investigation.

And now we know that the dossier is a figment of the imagination of a deranged British troll named Christopher Steele. It was Steele who told a corrupt deputy attorney general that he “was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.”

As the House memo says, “An independent unit within FBI assessed Steele’s reporting as only minimally corroborated.”

Translation: very fake news.

How can any serious person blame Trump for being angry about this? The Democrats and the crooked cops were trying to railroad him, still are as a matter of fact. But the paid Democrat operatives in the alt-left media compare Trump to Nixon.

Nixon? If you want to make a real analogy to Watergate and 1972, Hillary would actually be Nixon, and Trump would be McGovern. Like McGovern, Trump was the victim of a conspiracy, only it was so much more than a “third-rate burglary.”

The only difference is Nixon didn’t even need that black-bag job on the DNC headquarters. He won 49 states.

Hillary, on the other hand, despite having the covert support of both the U.S. and Russian governments, still lost in an Electoral College wipeout.

As corrupt as the Democrats were, they were even more incompetent.

But their only regret is that their conspiracy failed. And now that they’re busted, they can’t even keep their talking points straight.

Half of the talking-head hacks say it’s “demagoguery or democracy.” The other half of the amen chorus on CNN dismisses the Intel Committee report as a “nothing burger.”

The memo can’t be both, but apparently it is.

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