FLASHBACK: The Worst Promoters of the Russia Collusion Hoax

Within the wake of Particular Counsel John Durham has dropping the bombshell report that the Hillary Clinton marketing campaign spied on Donald Trump throughout the 2016 marketing campaign, will we see members of the leftist media that the majority vociferously PUSHED the Russia collusion hoax, assault the Clinton camp with the identical quantity? Don’t wager on it. 

The next is a have a look at a few of the most over-the-top cases of liberal journos trying to carry down former President Trump with disproven claims of an election collusion with Russian President Vladimir Putin: 

 

Mr. President Are You a Russian Agent?

 

 

“Mr. President, sure or no. Have you ever or are you now — have you ever ever labored for Russia? Sure or no?”
— NBC Information White Home correspondent Kristen Welker to Donald Trump in a January 14, 2019 confrontation.

 

Russian Hoax Redux 

“The President is a Russian operative…It’s Vladimir Putin’s best achievement. Many years after America’s victory within the Chilly Warfare and collapse of the Soviet Union, the President of the USA is now serving to the President of Russia assist the President of the USA to get re-elected….That is a type of surprising information days should you retain the capability to be shocked within the Trump period by the Trump regime, which may be higher labeled the Trump-Putin regime.”
— Host Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC’s The Final Phrase, February 21, 2020. 

 

Did Russia Elect Trump?

 

 

“Whenever you have a look at the 2016 election and also you have a look at how, comparatively talking, it was determined by a handful of votes in a number of states, do you assume it’s attainable that Russia’s election interference really labored? It really elected Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton?”
— Co-host Savannah Guthrie to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on NBC’s As we speak, September 11, 2019.

 

What Issues Most: Trump Damage Mueller’s Emotions

 

 

“Did Robert Mueller deserve higher from the President than this type of language and conduct?…Let’s discuss concerning the President’s conduct….He trashed him [Mueller] for 2 years….Does he owe Robert Mueller an apology for that sort of rhetoric?”
— Co-host Savannah Guthrie’s inquiries to White Home Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as aired on NBC’s As we speak, March 25, 2019.

 

Pouring Chilly Water On Trump Victory Lap

 

 

“[Donald Trump] is feeling vindicated by the conclusion of Particular Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. However hanging over his victory lap this new revelation: Mueller’s nonetheless secret report is greater than 300 pages lengthy. And that’s fueling new questions concerning the Lawyer Common’s transient abstract, simply 4 pages.”
— Substitute anchor Cecilia Vega on ABC’s World Information Tonight, March 28, 2019.

“From the time that the Mueller investigation started, President Trump informed rally crowds he by no means conspired or colluded with Russians, and boy, did these crowds imagine it. Final evening in Michigan, he acted as if the Lawyer Common’s abstract of that underlying report was basically his Good Housekeeping seal of proof….For a president who loves to inform the nation and the world he’s at all times proper, President Trump relished his first marketing campaign rally after the completion of the Russia investigation. It was a profane victory lap.”
— Correspondent Main Garrett on CBS This Morning, March 29, 2019.

 

Greedy At Straws

 

 

“The White Home is spinning it, no collusion, no conspiracy with Russia. What the report did discover is that the Russians did, certainly, intrude with our election, with our technique of democracy. And that calls into query the very legitimacy of this presidency. And I do know they don’t need to speak about that however that was a discovering. Mueller didn’t exonerate this presidency….We actually have no idea what’s within the Mueller report.”
— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, March 26, 2019. 

 

Cuomo Refuses to Apologize for CNN’s Pretend Information

 

 

Rudolph Giuliani: “You guys on this community have tortured this man for 2 years with collusion and no one’s apologized for it! So, earlier than we speak about obstruction, apologize for the overreaction to collusion!”
Host Chris Cuomo: “Not an opportunity. Not an opportunity. Not an opportunity.”…
Giuliani: “Apologize.”
Cuomo: “By no means.” 
— CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time, March 25, 2019.

 

Joe Cries: There Is Extra of “Onion to Unpeel”

“If Donald Trump had nothing to fret about all alongside, why did the President lie about his contacts with Russia repeatedly throughout the marketing campaign? Why did the Vice President lie about their contacts with Russia in January of 2017? Why did the Lawyer Common lie in entrance of the USA Senate about his contacts?… How concerning the assembly on Air Drive One the place Donald Trump has all people round him saying, ‘Okay that is how we’ll lie about our assembly with the Russians?’…There’s extra of that onion to unpeel.”
— Co-host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, March 25, 2019.  

 

“Russians Have Clearly Received”

 

 

“I need to hear him [Mueller] inform me why the ‘Russia should you’re listening’ speech was….a joke? Did he settle for the altering of the Georgian platform as a joke? The handing off of information to Konstantin Kilimnik, a GRU, , asset as a joke? Any person’s obtained to clarify this stuff. And if it was ‘I couldn’t get a 100% slam dunk’ then the Russians have clearly gained on a really nicely deliberate and coordinated operation, even by Mr. Mueller’s requirements.”
— MSNBC counter-terrorism analyst Malcolm Nance on MSNBC’s The Beat, March 24, 2019.

 

Whining About Climate Supplanting Anti-Trump Spins

“I used to be watching Good Morning America this weekend and each mornings they led with snowstorms and scares at malls and different tales and never this [Washington Post and New York Times stories on Russia-Trump]. I simply maintain questioning if the general public is ill-served if we don’t make it actually clear what the stakes of this story are. How can a morning present not lead with this drama?”
— Host Brian Stelter on CNN Dependable Sources, January 13, 2019.

 

“Con Man” Trump Owes His Presidency to “Hero” Putin 

 

 

“More and more to imagine that the President isn’t compromised requires such a leap of religion that requires so many coincidences and inexplicable behavioral selections. I believe the reality might be what is true in entrance of us, which is that Donald Trump was sort of a con man, a 3rd tier failed businessman whose fortunes had been rescued by Russian oligarchs….He grew to become president with the direct intervention of Putin. He sees his fortunes as inseparable from Putin’s. We don’t know if Putin is his handler, his hero or his co-conspirator, but it surely’s clearly the place his loyalty lies versus mendacity with the American individuals.”
— New York Occasions columnist Michelle Goldberg on ABC’s This Week, July 22, 2018.

 

Putin’s “Sinister” Sway Over Trump 

“When historians look again on the Trump presidency they’ll say this was the week that one thing modified. One thing actually shifted within the conversations concerning the President….Trump’s odd conduct with Vladimir Putin is compelling so many individuals to ask: ‘What does Putin have on Trump? Has Trump been compromised?’ All of these individuals, these specialists, these reporters, they’re trying on the reality sample and seeing one thing unusual, even sinister.”
— Host Brian Stelter on CNN’s Dependable Sources, July 22, 2018.

 

Putin “Weaponized” Trump to Do His Bidding

“You already know, in bio applied sciences, there’s a notion of getting a virus that may go in and rip aside DNA of one thing and alter your complete genome of an organism. It’s as if Donald Trump has been weaponized through the years by Vladimir Putin to go in and do Putin’s bidding, to vary the genetic code of NATO, of the Republican Get together of the USA, of democracy. And it’s astonishing how he has change into such an efficient and harmful virus created by Vladimir Putin.”
— Former Time editor Walter Isaacson on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, July 23, 2018. 

 

“Disturbed” Trump Is Both “Compromised” By Russia or a “Towering Idiot”

 

 

“Our President is a disturbed individual, and he’s behaving in methods which are merely inexplicable that inform you that he’s both compromised as a result of the Russians have been funding his firm in ways in which he’s, he would discover embarrassing if publicly disclosed….Or he’s compromised due to, possibly, conduct he engaged in whereas in Moscow, or he’s merely a towering idiot who’s ignoring the recommendation of his intelligence chiefs being made in public.”
New York Occasions columnist Thomas Friedman on CNN New Day, February 21, 2018.

 

Onerous For Us “Keep on with the Info” Reporters to Beat Out Fox’s “Dishonest Narrative” 

“On one aspect, we now have a really politically motivated media, Fox, Breitbart, Infowars, et cetera, which are pushing a dishonest narrative, frankly, that’s politically motivated. And on the opposite aspect, we’re attempting to be like, nicely, we’re not on any aspect, listed here are the main points. And I believe individuals’s eyes glaze over….That’s a part of the issue, is that one aspect could be very politically motivated. And the opposite aspect, you and myself included, are attempting to stay to the details. And the details get increasingly conflicted as – , with daily.”
The Atlantic’s Julia Ioffe, discussing protection of Russian “collusion” story on CNN’s Dependable Sources, February 4, 2018.

 

Trump’s Wrestling Tweet Altering the Topic of Him Being a “Russian Intelligence Asset”

“Trump has brilliantly modified the topic from ‘Is he a Russian intelligence asset’ to ‘Is he a dangerously violent lunatic?’”
— July 2, 2017 tweet by The Atlantic senior editor David Frum, in response to Trump tweeting out video of him clothes-lining a person in a swimsuit with CNN superimposed on his head.

 

Don’t Be Distracted By Trump’s “Skilled Monkey” Act

“A flurry of unfounded allegations muddle our information feeds. Susan Rice. Wiretapping of the Trump crew by President Obama. The newest Fox Information induced Twitter rant. The smoke machine is turned on. There’s a educated monkey dancing within the nook. The magician is buckling his cufflinks. The misdirection meter is turned up full. We can not let ourselves be distracted….We all know that Russia – led by a former KGB agent – actively labored to undermine our election. We all know that there are severe investigations into collision [sic] between Trump associates and Russian operatives. That’s the story. The whole lot else is simply noise and dirt till confirmed in any other case.”
— Disgraced former CBS Night Information anchor Dan Quite in an April 5, 2017  Fb submit “The Risks of Distraction.”

 

Worse than Watergate and Iran Contra

“Watergate is the most important political scandal of my lifetime, till possibly now. It was the closest we got here to a debilitating Constitutional disaster, till possibly now. On a ten scale of armageddon for our type of authorities, I’d put Watergate at a 9. This Russia scandal is presently someplace round a 5 or 6, in my view, however it’s cascading in depth seemingly by the hour. And we could look again and see, ultimately, that it’s at the very least as massive as Watergate. It could change into the measure by which all future scandals are judged. It has all the mandatory substances, and that’s chilling.”
— Disgraced former CBS Night Information anchor Dan Quite in a February 15, 2017 Fb submit.

 

Putin’s Puppet a “Tainted” and “Illegitimate” President

“So this was a tainted election. It was not, so far as we are able to inform, stolen within the sense that votes had been counted flawed, and the end result gained’t be overturned. However the end result was nonetheless illegitimate in vital methods; the victor was rejected by the general public, and gained the Electoral Faculty solely because of overseas intervention and grotesquely inappropriate, partisan conduct on the a part of home legislation enforcement. The query now’s what to do with that horrifying data within the months and years forward.”
New York Occasions columnist Paul Krugman, December 12, 2016.

Host John Dickerson: “We heard about Russian involvement doubtlessly whereas the election was happening, however what appears to be new is that it was focused to assist Donald Trump….”
Slate author Jamelle Bouie: “It truly is unprecedented. And if — whether it is true, if we now have additional verification of this, then what it suggests doubtlessly is that the election was in some sense illegitimate. And I don’t know the place you go from there.
CBS Face the Nation, December 11, 2016.

“Greatest winner? Vladimir Putin. He did it. He did it. He did what Gorbachev couldn’t do, what Castro couldn’t do. He principally took over the USA and obtained himself a Manchurian candidate and that’s one thing no different Russian chief has been in a position to do. He’ll be cheering about this and it will likely be in historical past books for the following 50 years. It’s a coup. It’s an incredible coup.”
— The Root’s Jason Johnson on MSNBC’s Hardball, December 21, throughout a phase on the most important winners and losers of 2016.

 

Invoice Can’t Imagine It, There Has to Be Extra

 

 

“It doesn’t fairly make sense to me….It’s like a type of motion pictures, , the place they appear to be wrapping it up. Appears to be over. Case closed. We caught the killer….Wait, there’s quarter-hour left….I really feel like there’s a last scene the place Mueller goes dwelling, and he places his briefcase down and he sits right down to dinner together with his spouse – who’s Roger Stone. And he’s cooking a meatloaf whereas he’s speaking on the cellphone in Russian to Vladimir Putin.”
— Host Invoice Maher on HBO’s Actual Time, March 29, 2019.

“This can be a high-tech coup….William Barr, he’s a stooge. That is what Third World nations do. The dictator appoints any person who exonerates him. That’s what occurred right here….I don’t assume simply because it’s Bob Mueller we now have to take it on religion. Let me learn Jeremy Bash, I assumed what he stated the opposite day was nice. ‘The president requested Russian help, he acquired Russian help, he benefited from Russian help and he rewarded Russian help.’ And his son met with Russians, who had been promoting them dust. And his marketing campaign supervisor went and gave polling knowledge to a Russian oligarch who was in tight with the Kremlin. Inform me why that’s not collusion? In fact that’s collusion. I don’t get it.
— Host Invoice Maher on HBO’s Actual Time, March 29, 2019.

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