Publisher’s Note: The slow burning denouement of what was the biggest US fake news story of the past four years. Two of our best independent journalists – Matt Taibbi and Aaron Mate – break it down on Taibbi and Helper’s “Useful Idiots” podcast this week. Watching the Democratic Party neoglobalists and their media minions (that’s you, Rachel Maddow) advance an evidence-free conspiracy theory about DJT as a puppet of the Kremlin, while highly entertaining, did the collapsing US Empire no favors. Ah well. #FeelTheBern, Baby, Bern.