President Trump on Thursday assailed the media for editorials in newspapers across the country that championed the freedom of the press, a unified response in the face of the president’s relentless attacks.

In a series of morning Twitter posts, Mr. Trump said The Boston Globe was “in collusion” with other newspapers for leading the editorial effort, choosing a word that has become synonymous with the special counsel’s investigation into Russian election interference — an investigation that he has repeatedly called a “witch hunt” and a “hoax.”

Trump also added “PROVE IT!” in one of the messages, though it was not clear what he meant.

pdq wrote:
Yeah, folks (especially the right, honestly) seems to be stuck on that word - collusion.

Bottom line: what we know so far is that the Russians wanted Trump elected, and they approached the Trump campaign and offered to help in the form of "dirt" on his opponent. And his son responded, "If it's what you say, I love it!" and took the meeting. And then the Russians made sure than (fairly anodyne) sausage-making emails from the DNC were widely published, knowing that the right would try to make hay with them and the press would play along.

Is there more? Probably. Does there need to be more? Not really.

Candidate Donald Trump vowed to expose dirt on his political opponents Bill and Hillary Clinton just two days before the controversial 2016 Trump Tower meeting that his former lawyer Michael Cohen insisted Trump knew about.

Trump never delivered on his promise after his eldest son Donald Trump Jr., son-in-law Jared Kushner and then campaign manager Paul Manafort met with attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya in 2016. The men expected to be presented with damaging information about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, but the attorney failed to deliver, Donald Trump Jr. told Senate investigators.

His father’s promised speech on the Clintons then sank without a trace.