A Democratic member of Congress said the quiet part out loud over the weekend, admitting that prominent party officials knew the Trump-Russia collusion allegation was a hoax but chose to pursue it anyway in order to hamstring Trump at the start of his first administration.

The offhand remark by Rep. Jason Crow (D-WI) on “Fox News Sunday” was flagged by conservative legal scholar Jonathan Turley, who called the admission “damning” in light of “falsehoods” being promulgated by U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and others.

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“That is a particularly telling and frank[ly] damning statement since figures like Adam Schiff were out spreading the false collusion claims,” Turley wrote on X.

In a column, the George Washington University law professor described the Trump administration’s effort to tell “the story of the real Russian conspiracy: how high-ranking officials in the Obama Administration seeded this false claim with the help of an eager, unquestioning press corps.”

“Not surprisingly, the media (which spent years repeating the false Russian collusion claims) is doing a full-court press to kill the story. Yet, many of these key figures are retaining counsel in anticipation of the unfolding investigation. Many previously secured contracts with MSNBC or CNN, or book deals, where they doubled down on the false claims detailed in these new documents,” he wrote.

Schiff, who was elected to the Senate in 2024, spent his time on the J6 committee “insist[ing] that he had evidence of collusion” but never produced it, even after special counsel Robert Mueller concluded that the evidence never existed.

“The mantra in the media and the Democratic Party that there is nothing to see here is predictable but hardly credible,” he added

“Many of these same congressional figures were fully aware that Russian collusion was rejected by American intelligence before the start of the Trump term. However, they continued to knowingly spread the disinformation for political purposes.”

Trump and Tulsi Gabbard, his director of national intelligence, last week insisted that former President Barack Obama colluded with Hillary Clinton’s campaign and top U.S. intelligence officials to smear him with baseless allegations about collusion with Russian forces. Gabbard revealed she had referred Obama to the U.S. Justice Department for criminal prosecution.

Some of these individuals, such as former CIA Director John Brennan, have already demonstrated their guilt by alleging the Trump-Russia connection years after leaving office, Turley wrote.

“Notably, it was Brennan who briefed Obama in 2016 about Hillary Clinton’s plan to create a Russian conspiracy to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service.t Months later, it would be Brennan who would actively incorporate the dossier secretly funded by Clinton’s campaign,” he stated.