recall that after that expose, which was shortly before the election, 2016, that Podesta came out with the warning about "fake news"....he coined that....similar to the fibbers coining the term "conspiracy theory" when they want to distract attention and "splain things"...
The story was there was no basement at Comet Pizza but then the owner discussed in an interview that he stored tomatoes for pizzas in the basement. Can’t have it both ways. Then Jake Tapper said that Comet Pizza was he and his wife’s favorite place to eat. That sealed my belief that Pizzagate was real.