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Robert Fisk writes for the Independent, where this column originally appeared.
(1) Actually it was the mainstream press and the deep state/Democratic mafia that fist came up with the “fake news” smear in an effort to stigmatize Hillary critics and ghettoize the few authentic voices that tell it like it is, their names later codified in the WaPo publicized blacklist of “rogue sites”, supposedly outed by the highly suspect shadowy organization propornot. Later on Trump hitched a ride on this new fad targeting his mainstream media tormentors—in that regard he was and is right, but he did not invent the term.
Even more incredibly, Trump blamed Iran – rather than Isis – for “fueling sectarian violence”, pitied the Iranian people for their “despair” a day after they had freely elected a liberal reformer as their president, and demanded the further isolation of the largest Shiite country in the Middle East. The regime responsible for “so much instability” is Iran. The Shiite Hezbollah were condemned. So were the Shiite Yemenis. Trump’s Sunni Saudi hosts glowed with warmth at such wisdom.