The Trump-Russia "collusion" conspiracy theory has never been substantiated by significant evidence—even after a money-no-object two-year-long special counsel—but its adherents have always been able to cling to the possibility that it, somehow, might still be true.
Yet even that fallback is rapidly crumbling:
The Washington Post made headlines last week when it corrected and altered two stories that inaccurately identified a key source of the discredited anti-Trump Steele dossier – but the paper also added editor's notes to at least 14 other reports.
The two stories, published in March 2017 and February 2019, were changed when the newspaper's executive editor, Sally Buzbee, said she could no longer stand by their accuracy. The post added editor's notes, amended headlines, removed sections identifying Sergei Millian as the source and deleted an accompanying video summarizing the articles...
The now-corrected reporting also popped up in other Washington Post articles.
You can kind of picture how former President Trump is feeling as the whole conspiracy theory continues to deteriorate even further:
Still, it's small consolation; the conspiracy theory, after all, occupied much of Trump's first term in office, baselessly smeared a sitting president with charges akin to treason, ensnarled much of the Washington bureaucracy in a Democratic political boondoggle, and weaponized the U.S. government and the media as tools of vicious oppositional politics.
