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There was a stunning admission from ABC senior national correspondent Terry Moran during Sunday’s This Week when he conceded that if Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion with Russia by the Trump campaign, then there would be a “reckoning for the media” among others who pushed the notion.
Moran’s concession came after fill-in host Martha Raddatz wondered if it would even be a big deal if nothing was found. Moran suggested it would be “huge” because the left had elevated Mueller to “folk hero” status because of the investigation.
In no uncertain terms, Moran laid out how serious it would be for those desperately searching for collusion:
No, but the most central and most serious question in this investigation, the reason Robert Mueller started it is, did the current president of the United States assist the Kremlin in an attack on our democracy? And if Mueller, after two years, comes back and says, “I don't have the evidence to support that charge,” that's a reckoning. That's a reckoning for progressives and Democrats who hoped that Mueller would essentially erase the 2016 election. It's a reckoning for the media. It’s a reckoning around the country if, in fact, after all this time there was no collusion.
Seemingly unhappy with Moran’s conclusion, Raddatz turned to chief Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas to save the narrative.
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