Don't be silly. It's not a smear attack (think emails, phone taps, birtherism or swiftboats for that matter) if it actually happened.

If it happened, and nobody is denying that it did, then it is news. Certainly it's news to whoever is supplying intelligence that is supposed to be kept confidential. If US intelligence partners had wanted to share with the Russians, they could have done so on their own.

This is news. Not fake news, not a conspiracy, not some cockamamie excuse for you to go ballistic, start foaming at the mouth, or go off-grid with your tin-foil hat. It's just plain old news. Can you handle it?

It doesn't make Trump look bad. He does that on his own with no help from the MSM.