P. GREANVILLE—For those who understand what’s really going on, how the liberal mainstream establishment has rolled out one of the most outrageous campaigns of defamation and putschist disinformation in modern history against both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, indeed a case without parallel in the entire history of US media, this particular Taibbi piece does not make for enjoyable reading. It is disingenuous, at best.
ELECTION 2016
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ESMOND LYONS—Commenting —inter alia—on the misguided fixation of never-trumpers and Russiagaters, almost all captives of the Democrat party machine, who usually have the audacity of thinking themselves politically astute and progressive.
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The BBC digs itself a very, very deep hole: Russian TV SLAMS Trump ‘Documentary’
by shorty11 minutes readOne’s got a feeling that BBC knew about a forthcoming leak well in advance and was preparing itself for its coverage by shooting in all the right places in Moscow like Kremlin etc. If so, the whole set up looks like a provocation by the US and UK security services to undermine the legitimacy of the US President Elect. Russian political analyst Dmitry Drobnitsky remarks that the documentary drives at tormenting a sense of fear of the ‘gang of hooligans’, aka European and US right wing conservative forces.
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THOMAS L. KNAPP—In mid-May, it emerged that an FBI informant approached two or three (reports vary) advisers to Trump’s campaign during the same period to pry into those advisers’ alleged ties to the Russian government. Is President Trump stretching the reports we’ve seen when he tweets “Reports are there was indeed at least one FBI representative implanted, for political purposes, into my campaign for president. It took place very early on, and long before the phony Russia Hoax became a ‘hot’ Fake News story?”
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ERIC ZUESSE— By now, it is obvious that Trump has adhered only to his promises to Evangelicals and other extremist-right-wingers, and not at all to any of the progressive promises that he made when campaigning for the White House. Isn’t the evidence of his evil, clear enough, yet?