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Letter: Russia collusion deniers and Holocaust deniers have something in common

FILE - In this June 21, 2017, file photo. fFormer FBI Director Robert Mueller, the special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 election, arrives on Capitol Hill for a closed door meeting before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington. Martin and Jane Raskin, added last week to President Donald Trump’s legal team is described by those who know them as experienced, skilled and humble, a striking counterpoint to some of the other attorneys who have represented him over the last year. The Raskin's are joining the legal team at a critical phase in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation as Trump weighs whether to sit for an interview with prosecutors. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

When I was growing up, we lived down the street from a German woman who denied the Holocaust had ever happened. I couldn’t understand her denial, in the face of photographs and testimony from concentration camp victims, the soldiers who liberated them, and the existence of thousands of mass graves in Germany.

I now understand the phenomenon after reading similar denials by Trump followers of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia. Case in point: Tom Kurilich claims that Robert Muller “has yet to come up with a single shred of evidence of collusion.” Seriously?

U.S. intelligence agencies unanimously concluded that Russia hacked the email of the DNC, created thousands of fake social media accounts, and tried to infiltrate state voter registration systems to help Trump win; Trump himself called on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails during his campaign; four Trump officials have been charged with lying about their contacts with Russia, and three have pleaded guilty. The list just gets longer.

It would seem that no matter how much evidence there is, some individuals simply cannot admit they put their faith in the wrong person.

Blair Bateman, Provo