Bill Maher, Joe Scarborough Try To Bring Back Russia Collusion Hoax, Say It Wasn't A Hoax

Posted • October 20, 2024: MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough joined HBO Real Time host Bill Maher on Friday to discuss how they believe that Republicans are more guilty of spreading misinformation than the left. However, one of their examples of right-wing disinformation was their claim that the Russia collusion hoax is itself a hoax. … Later, during the Real Time Overtime segment, Maher undermined their claim, “I mean, I kind of alluded to in the show, but I think the biggest hoax going is the idea that the Russia collusion was not a, was a, is a hoax. It's not a hoax. There was collusion just because Bob Mueller was bad at proving it. There is definitely collusion.” Scarborough agreed, “That's one of the more maddening things. I still read the Wall Street Journal editorial page and the op-eds and, and it's sort of my go to in the morning and it's maddening to even see people on there talking about ‘Russia hoax’ and you just want to say, read the Mueller report, read everything that's happened.” (…)

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