Hi, I'm "the left", at least for the purposes of this conversation. The left did no such thing. I tried to get us to do so because there was clearly a fraudulent election. But it didn't matter what I said, the left didn't want to hear none of it. They were more concerned (legitimately) about Russophobia and not giving too much legitimacy to the alphabet soup agencies.
Please cite sources for Democratic senators, congresspeople, and/or party officials advancing these claims.
- Nancy Pelosi on May 16, 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_...
Trump asked the Russians to hack Hillary, and hours later they began probing the Clinton domains.
Russian government hacked Podesta
Russian government hacked the DNC
Russian government gave those emails to Wikileaks to hurt Hillary / boost Trump and they were weaponized explicitly to do so (e.g. the Podesta release coming hours after the President was on tape bragging about grabbing women by the pussy)
Russian businessmen, closely linked to the government spent millions of dollars on a social media campaign to boost Trump
Trump's campaign took several meetings with Russians offering help with the election, including explicit meetings offered as "Part of the government's assistance to the Trump campaign" and then lied to the press and the government when asked about those meetings
Trump's campaign manager gave private polling data to several Russians, including a probable spy
Trump dangled pardons for his team if they didn't cooperate with the investigation
Trump pardoned those people who didn't cooperate with the investigation
Trump's team changed the entire GOP platform to be more friendly to Russia
Trump's transition team took clandestine meetings to promise to remove sanctions that were in place for the above activity.
Trump's son-in-law offered to take meetings in the Russian embassy to be out of range of US intelligence.
So far as I can tell, the "Hoax" that people are adamant about refers to the Mueller finding where they couldn't prove that any of the above was coordinated - And it very well might not have been! - but to say that it was a hoax that Russia helped Trump win is so silly.
Has plenty of names and links to read all about it, if you missed it.
"Even after the Mueller report clearly indicated that there was no provable collusion or coordination between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, Schiff continued to propagate the lie."
Except that it didn't, really.
"there was knowing and complicit behavior between the Trump campaign and Russians that stopped short of direct coordination, which may constitute conspiracy"[1]
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report#Redacted_report...
THIS is the problem!
If your last question is in earnest...I guess nowhere in particular and yet everywhere. I don't particularly like any of the news media companies, as I find they all have a blatant bias.
However, in front of Tea Party, Trumpism and coup attempt, sadly outrage and calls for accountability are rightly justified.
I'm generally in the center, but dislike when one party treats the other as solely being the problem. While I can't think of a specific qanon level of craziness on that side, they have their own, different craziness.