Leftists Will Target Any Republican With Lawfare– thefederalist.com

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, has earned a reputation as one of the Senate’s most bipartisan and moderate members. But not even that willingness to work across the aisle spared the longtime senator from being ensnared by the left’s lawfare machine.

Leftist propaganda outlet ProPublica dropped a hit piece on Tuesday suggesting Collins and her 2020 Senate campaign were caught up in a Biden-era FBI investigation that probed allegations of a pay-to-play and bribery scheme.

While Collins’ team rejected claims of wrongdoing and denied that the senator’s campaign was ever the subject of the inquiry, the left-wing-funded “news” organization nonetheless attempted to paint Collins and her allies as nefarious players in the debacle. It further portrayed President Trump as a willing accomplice who “stacked the Department of Justice with his personal lawyers” and “eviscerated” “specialized FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption investigations.”

“It is important to note that during the Biden Administration the FBI and the Department of Justice thoroughly investigated the … matter. The Collins campaign cooperated fully with the FBI throughout the investigation, producing all of the documents it requested and serving as fact witnesses in official settings,” Collins spokeswoman Annie Clark said in response to ProPublica’s report. “In response to the allegations in the ProPublica piece, the FBI clearly stated that a suggestion of wrongdoing by Senator Collins or her staff is ‘totally false.’”