Click here to access article by Bernhard from his blog Moon of Alabama. (I thank an activist for alerting me to this article.)
Contrary to what this author argues, I believe that the pressure on Trump in the form of "Russia-gate" accomplished much for the Deep State, the invisible, behind-the-scenes directorate of the USA. Probably chief among these accomplishments are that they have forced Trump to install many "ziocons" (neoliberals) in his administration which are pursuing much more aggressive foreign policies.
I don't think that the conspiracy attacks on Trump have "run out of steam" as Bernhard argues. After all, they never depended on evidence. It was sufficient to repeat the charges 24/7 on their media corporations to get many of the American people convinced. Only now with the Trump administration's move against the government of Venezuela do we see them backing off of the Russia-gate ploy as C.J. Hopkins noticed yesterday.