I could say the same thing about the magic rock I keep on my front porch to ward off tigers. But the absence of tigers on my porch isn't evidence that my magic rock works.
People forget that for two+ years the intelligence community had the media reporting on some Q-annon level conspiracy that the president was colluding with the Russian government. If you recall most every story at the time was based on "unnamed sources", who do you think those sources were?
