That’s actually a brilliant strategy. Accuse President Trump of colluding with Russia using its America-hating surrogates in the American political/media cesspool to carry its water.
The Soviets/Russians/KGB are the best at “Dizinformatia” and other propaganda operations. Here’s a paragraph from “Soviet Covert Action (The Forgery Offensive)”, Hearings, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Oversight, 96th Congress, 2nd Session, Feb. 6, 19, 1980, p. 6.
“Active measures encompass a range of activities, the most important of which include the following: written and oral “disinformation”; forgeries, false rumors; “Gray”; unattributed; and “black”;: falsely attributed propaganda; manipulation and control of foreign media assets, manipulative political action and the use of “agents-of-influence” operations, clandestine radio stations, use of foreign Communist Parties and international front groups for pursuing Soviet foreign policy objectives, support for international revolutionary and terrorist organizations, the so-called national liberation movements, and even political blackmail and kidnaping.”
The followup hearing was “Soviet Active Measures”, hearings, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House of Representatives, 97th Congress, 2nd Session, July 13, 14, 1982.
Roy Godson also wrote/co-edited a major book on “Disinformation” back in the 1980s.
And don’t think that the reds don’t/didn’t have their assets planted in the US Congress. Just look at the statements of Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich) and identified CPUSA member Rep. George Crockett Jr (D-Mich), when a vote of about 378 to 2 to condemn the Soviet Union for the cold blooded shooting down of Korean airplane KAL 007, took place. These two who voted against the resolution blamed the US and So. Korea for the shoot-down.
Conyers is an old red from at least the 1960’s if not earlier and Crockett was a Communist Party trusted lawyer in the Rosenberg trials.
Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY was probably as KGB asset given her sudden rise in the Soviet front, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers.
Rep. Ron Dellums (D-Ca) had ties to the Cubans/DGI and their Marxist allies, the communist coup leaders of Maurice Bishop on the island of Grenada, 1982-83.
Now Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Ca) is a big supporter of Communist Cuba and the Castros (alive or dead).
Rep. Don Edwards (D-Ca) tried to get the US Govt to allow two identified and convicted Soviet spies (Martha Dodd and Alfred Stern) to come back to the US to die, without facing any outstanding (about 15) charges of treason and espionage. He was aided in this effort by Sylvia Crane, a longtime suspected secret member of the CPUSA and possible Soviet asset.
Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Ca) whose ties to the CPUSA and Soviet espionage/propaganda operatives went back as far as WW2, and then the communist-dominated Institute for Pacific Relations.
In 1934, the Soviets even bought a Democrat Congressman Emanuel Dickstein, which Dickstein later admitted.
Soviet/Russian “Disinformation” programs have been going on for almost 100 years, and you can find bits and pieces of them in the so-called “leading” American newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post, if you know what to look for.
One day, if the FBI and CIA files are opened up for all to see, you will find some very “trusted” American newsmen and women as having been Soviet operatives.