Dear Ms. Maddow

Dear Rachel Maddow (and countless others),

Things are about to get real. I think this will be hard for you, so I am suggesting you handle this in stages.

Let’s start at the beginning. This is the easy stuff. Until you have fully absorbed the easy stuff, you will not be able to handle what’s coming.

You need to state on the air that the accusation that there was once an agreement, understanding, coordination, collusion, or quid pro quo between Trump individually, the Trump campaign, or Trump associates, and anyone in Russia is FALSE. Our president is not a traitor, and is not now, nor has ever been, a Russian agent in any way, shape, or form.

It is not enough to merely agree that the allegation has not been proven. It is not enough to merely agree that the multiyear Mueller Investigation failed to find sufficient evidence to indict or impeach. The correct statement is that the Mueller Investigation found NO EVIDENCE - zip, zero, none - in support of the allegation. The correct statement is that all the past accusations were false, made up, intentional disinformation, a hoax.

Ms. Maddow, this note does not ask you to call Brennan, Clapper, and Comey saboteurs. If you wish to cling to the hope that they acted in good faith, well, that is okay for phase one of your rehabilitation.

But, Ms. Maddow, you cannot continue to insist that Christopher Steele acted in good faith. Any journalist with even an ounce of integrity must inform her viewers that Christopher Steele was hired to concoct lies about Donald Trump and Russia. He conducted no investigation. He had no sources. He sat in a DC bar with a Russian buddy and made [REDACTED] up. He did exactly what he was paid to do. He was paid by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, using two intermediaries to disguise the payments. Everything in this paragraph is undeniable. Please don’t continue to deny it.

If you wish to insist that other credible evidence exists to support a Trump-Russia connection, well, go for it. But, please acknowledge that such other evidence has never been declassified, and therefore its existence is a matter of faith, not proof.

Furthermore, it is well past time to acknowledge that non-partisan career intelligence officers have never said such damning evidence exists. It is only the big three — Brennan, Clapper, and Comey. The current head of the CIA, the current DNI, and the current head of the FBI — Ratcliffe, Gabbard, and Patel — all say publicly that they have looked, really hard, and they cannot find any such evidence.

If Brennan, Clapper, or Comey wish to reveal what led them to make such accusations, I am sure any request they make to declassify something would be granted. They will never make such a request because they have nothing; zip, squat, nada, zero.

Please, Ms. Maddow, call all of your confidential sources and ask them to seek declassification of all their dirt. Please tell the world how they led you, a prominent journalist, to nightly tell the world, for three years, that Trump was a traitor. Please lead your show tonight with the results of those phone calls. Please tell us if anyone still wishes to stand behind what they told you during 2015-2019.

This saga is not over, but the original accusation part is over. It’s dead. If you want to have any credibility as you report on the aftermath, you have to first drive the final nails in the coffin for the Trump-Putin collusion hoax. You have to use the word “hoax.”

And finally, Ms Maddow, please share with your viewers your current state of mind. We really want to know. You see, if you were a normal journalist, you should currently be feeling intense anger at your sources. You should also feel a profound sense of professional embarrassment. And finally, you should feel an overwhelming desire to apologize to Donald J. Trump.

We blame your confidential sources more than you. But, Ms. Maddow, besides the word “hoax,” it would be nice to hear you quote a bit of Latin — Mea Culpa.

G-Pub

PS: It doesn’t have to be tonight. We have waited years already. But, really, it’s time, isn’t it?