Progressive intellectual Noam Chomsky called the Democratic party’s focus on ‘Russiagate’ a ‘huge gift” for President Donald Trump that “could hand him the next election.”
Speaking to Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman last week, Chomsky outlined his long-held view that there was never any ‘Russian collusion’ worth investigating in the first place.
“The Democrats invested everything in this issue,” Chomsky continued. “Well, turned out there was nothing much there. They gave Trump a huge gift. In fact, they may have handed him the next election.”
With calls for impeachment rising from some Democrat lawmakers, and with several Democrat-led congressional investigations poised to examine Trump further, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway took a jab at the Russia-obsessed Democrats on Thursday. Holding up a blank sheet of paper, Conway told reporters “this is the success of the Democrats in the first 100 days in Congress.”
Chomsky, for his part, is a frequent critic of Trump, accusing the president of obscuring his pro-corporate policies of tax reform and deregulation with “outrageous” statements on abortion, gun rights, and other cultural issues to appeal to his base.
“Work for the rich and the powerful, shaft everybody else, but get their votes—that’s not an easy trick,” he told Goodman. “And he’s carrying it off.”
Chomsky, however, has also been a relentless critic of the left’s myopic focus on Russia.