


There’s a good rule of thumb when analyzing any major news story. That is, if the propaganda media are either refusing to cover it and/or downplaying it, there’s a good chance it’s damning to them and their Democrat allies.
That’s been the case these past few weeks, as leftists scramble to bury newly declassified materials showing how the Obama administration manufactured “evidence” to advance the false claim that Russia wanted Donald Trump to win the 2016 election. The records not only expose the intentional manipulation of intelligence to push this baseless conspiracy and the overarching Trump-Russia collusion hoax, but the participation of President Obama and his intel chiefs in fomenting the scheme to delegitimize Trump’s 2016 victory and subsequent presidency.
And how exactly have legacy media “journalists” responded to this enormous scandal? By attempting to discredit it, of course!
When Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard disclosed a batch of bombshell documents last week, so-called “news” organizations like CNN, CBS News, NBC News, the Associated Press, and The New York Times rushed to sweep the explosive revelations under the rug. “Move along, folks! There’s nothing to see here,” or so the conventional framing from these outlets went.
While a desire to protect their Democrat allies is certainly part of it, the bigger motivation behind the media’s attempts to cover up the latest Russiagate revelations has to do with the fact that they’ve acted as co-conspirators in the hoax from the very beginning. Put another way, they can’t honestly report on Russiagate because to do so would require acknowledging their role in helping foment the charade.
Consider that these regime propagandists, without a hint of circumspection, leapt at the earliest opportunity to disseminate the phony Trump-Russia allegations on the intel community’s behalf.
Weeks before Trump took office, for example, fake news CNN published an article by Jake Tapper, Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto, and Carl Bernstein on a classified briefing presented to Trump that included “allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump.” Americans would later learn this “compromising” information originated from the Steele dossier — a collection of baseless and absurd accusations against Trump that was cobbled together by an opposition research group hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign’s law firm to dig up dirt on Trump.
As The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway previously summarized, “The leak of the briefing of Trump was used to legitimize a ridiculous dossier full of allegations the FBI knew to be false and that multiple news organizations had previously refused to report on for lack of substantiation, and it created a cloud of suspicion over Trump’s incoming administration by insinuating he was being blackmailed by Russia.”
And that was only the beginning.
Tapper and Co. would go on to give credence to the phony collusion hoax for years on end, publishing countless articles and “leaks” from the intel community and Democrat congressional staffers seeking to undermine the duly elected president. These efforts included participants like “Fusion” Natasha Bertrand, who was one of many “journalists” more than happy to parrot Russiagate propaganda.
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In any given society, the ability of the government to disseminate information to the public is heavily reliant on the press to deliver it to the public. In turn, it’s incumbent upon the media to ensure that such information is accurate, and that whatever is published fits the standards of good journalism.
It’s beyond evident that’s not what happened with the media’s complicity in the Russia collusion hoax. Their willingness to publicize any and all Russiagate leaks with little to no skepticism had one major purpose: To undermine Trump and his presidency.
And by all means, they achieved their goal. Despite being debunked years ago, a poll released earlier this month found that 60 percent of Democrat voters (and 45 percent of moderates) still falsely believe that Trump colluded with Moscow to steal the 2016 contest. That’s a not insignificant percentage of the American electorate whose faith in the democratic process has been compromised because of the media’s damaging Russiagate lies.
While the media may believe silence is the best strategy in attempting to discredit the latest Russiagate news, they could not be more wrong. Their efforts to ignore and/or downplay these bombshells speaks volumes. The more dismissive they get, the more obvious their involvement in the sham becomes.