Trump's Russian hoax claim was tied to a challenge to his legitimacy, he is right to feel vindicated

NY Times:

Indictments Make Trump Hoax Claim Harder to Sell

By MARK LANDLER and MICHAEL D. SHEAR
By laying out in excruciating detail the evidence of Russian meddling spanning the last four years, the special counsel instantly created a new political reality for President Trump.
Trump is not a lawyer and does not speak with the precision of one when he talks about things like the charge that his election was tainted by Russian interference.  He objected to the assertion that his win was the result of Russian interference.  The Mueller indictments demonstrate that Trump was right about that.  The media is probably disappointed to learn that because many of them hoped that Trump's win could be attributed to the Russian.  That is why we get stories like this one that judges his comments on a more expansive measure of what constitutes a hoax.

It is clear from Deputy AG Rosensteins comments that the attempted interference did not effect the election.  Indeed, the media would be hard-pressed to find anyone whose vote was actually changed by the meddling.  I know mine was not.  I think that is what Trump was talking about when he said the word hoax.  I think opinion pieces like this one in the Times are an attempt to justify the previous run of bias stories against Trump.  It is a way of trying to avoid the fact that Trump's election was legitimate.

The collusion story has also been shown to be a hoax.  It was one perpetrated by the media and by the Democrats.  The attempt at self-congratulations by the media at this point is misplaced.

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