#FakeNews Exposed: Clapper Undermines ’17 Intelligence Agencies’ Narrative

Since January, political and media observers have been inundated with a narrative of consensus across the nation’s federal intelligence apparatus regarding a storyline of the Russian government’s Russian hacking in the U.S. election, essentially undermining the legitimacy of President Donald Trump’s administration by framing the president as a benefactor of a political subversion operation directed by a foreign adversary. Proponents of the narrative often frame Trump and his political allies as co-conspirators with the Russian state.