Personally, I think Hillary should have to reimburse the taxpayers for this expensive witch hunt that is the “special counsel.” It was, after all, her careless and baseless claim during her campaign that caused the witch hunt to be launched in the first place.
True, the Russia myth was formed already before Trump won. Presumably if he'd lost they'd have used it anyway, for they thought they'd win, yet they all kept pointing at Russia.
On CNN on election night, Obamunist Van Jones was talking about "pushback" and resistance, saying that "decent people do not want to see that type of agenda" (anti "immigration"); and there'd be a massive fight over SCOTUS appointments, and ...
"...there are people around the world who are watching this. They are appalled, they are shocked, they are surprised. The markets are showing it. And there's some people who are laughing. And some of them are in the Kremlin...this is the first election in which an enemy power, deliberately and explicitly, interfered in our election, and got away with it! And they interfered in our election in a one-sided way...they hacked Democrats, and we're going to have to figure out now what is our relationship to Russia going forward. And if Russia got away with it, this time, what if the Chinese do it to the Republicans next time, we are now living in a completely different context...(unintelligible)...national security, needs to be talked about."
Nor was this talking point unique to CNN. On ABC, Martha Radditz was saying Putin was happy. On NBC they were even more rabid.