Did Donald Trump’s team send fake intel about Russian “collusion tapes” to Rachel Maddow?

| 12:06 am EDT July 7, 2017
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Something’s been bothering me for the past two weeks now, and the light bulb may have finally gone on tonight. As I’ve pointed out one too many times of late, Donald Trump’s decision on June 26th to begin denying the existence of ‘collusion tapes’ was bizarre. Why deny something so oddly specific when it wasn’t being widely alleged to begin with? Then I watched Rachel Maddow tonight, and suddenly things made a little more sense.

Maddow is now revealing that a few weeks back, an anonymous source sent her a fake classified document which falsely confirmed that someone in the Donald Trump campaign had colluded with Russia to rig the election. She suspects someone was trying to trick her into reporting a fake story about Trump-Russia collusion, so the rug could then be pulled out from under her. That way the general public might come to see the whole collusion scandal as being a fake.

Right around the time Maddow was sent this fake classified intel about Trump-Russia collusion, Donald Trump was tweeting this: “they have zero ‘tapes’ of [Trump] people colluding.” (link). Again, what collusion tapes? Why was Trump suddenly bringing this up just to deny it? No one in the mainstream media was saying anything about there being tapes of Trump people colluding. So what I want to know is this.

Did Donald Trump’s team send fake classified intel to Rachel Maddow about the existence of collusion tapes? Was part of their scheme to have Trump begin denying the tapes on Twitter at that same time, in order to create the illusion that Trump had let something slip, and that the fake intel was real? Rachel, if you’re reading this, please let us know whether or not the fake “collusion” intel you received made mention of there being tapes. If so, that’ll give you a good idea of who sent it to you.