Far from it. A hoax is usually a complete lie. I never said the word hoax, and never thought it in making the post Toronto quoted. I said, "This wasn't another misleading, overblown, political stunt just before an election or anything, right?" My point was that the raid on Trump's home in search of classified documents was "conveniently" timed to occur just before the midterm election, and that most of the mainstream press would certainly portray it in the most dishonest and slanted way possible, while doing everything they could to make it a bigger deal than it was. I never claimed there were no documents and the raid or search was a hoax. It wasn't and I never thought it was. My point was that the press would exaggerate, slant, mislead, and blow it out of proportion just before an election. But I'm sure you and Toronto already understood that. Misrepresenting what I obviously meant is standard strawman stuff.
Now, you want a hoax? A hoax would be an intentional lie such as paying for a false report from a disreputable former spy, KNOWING the info in it was false, and then using it to justify a FISA warrant and years of phony investigations. I don't give a flip about Trump, but I have no tolerance for that sort of dishonesty and abuse of power.
