New York Times Tries To Keep Collusion Narrative Alive, Reports On Trump-Russia Contacts From Mueller Report

It’s not illegal to talk to someone who lives or works in Russia, but you wouldn’t know that if you were reading The New York Times last Friday.

The newspaper published an article titled “Mueller Report Shows Depth of Connections Between Trump Campaign and Russians,” and details in a massive chart all of the contacts — no matter how insignificant or one-sided — Trump campaign officials had with Russians. The lede paragraph of the Times article makes it clear they want it to look like the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, as it states: “Donald J. Trump and 18 of his associates had at least 140 contacts with Russian nationals and WikiLeaks, or their intermediaries, during the 2016 campaign and presidential transition, according to a New York Times analysis.” (Emphasis original.)