Media Collusion: Nets Silent on Hillary Being Fined Over Sketchy Steele Dossier

It’s not just Hunter and Joe Biden that the networks are desperately scrambling to protect. ABC, CBS and NBC are doing their best to shield Hillary Clinton’s campaign from fallout over the debunked Steele dossier. 

The New York Post and other outlets reported almost two weeks ago that “the Federal Election Commission has fined both Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee for lying about how they spent money used to fund the now-debunked Steele dossier on former President Donald Trump.”

Yet, you wouldn’t know it on the networks. There’s been no direct mention of it since the March 30 announcement. This is in spite of Clinton’s 11-minute and 3-second interview on April 3. Meet the Press. 

Instead, anchor Chuck Todd kept the focus on the danger Democrats face in the fall: “I`m curious… a lot of speculation is that this trouble for President Biden politically started with the chaotic withdrawal in Afghanistan. Do you buy that?” 

In contrast, New York Post explained: 

According to FEC documents, which were seen by the Post, both the Clinton campaign and DNC will have to pay $8,000 each and $105,000, respectively, for mislabeling payments. These funds ultimately went to Fusion GPS (the consulting firm that created the dossier), according to Post.

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Perkins Coie was a powerful Democratic law firm that paid over $1 million to the Clinton campaign. Fusion GPS was hired to find dirt about Trump. Fusion GPS, in turn, hired former British spy Christopher Steele — whose namesake dossier included allegations that Russian security services possessed a tape of Trump in a Moscow hotel room with prostitutes who were supposedly urinating on a bed where the Obamas had previously stayed. 

The lone exception where Clinton’s name even came up in the ballpark of discussion came on the April 3, 2022 edition of This Week.This was Republican Chris Christie. The fine wasn’t mentioned, but Christie told anchor George Stephanopoulos journalists were “dead wrong.” 

Here’s an exchange from This WeekCheck out the Steele dossier. Click “expand” to read more.) 

CHRIS CHRISTIE: But, look the idea that somehow, when making the Hunter Biden decision in the midst of an election campaign, we’re saying, “Oh, we got to be careful about Russian disinformation, but all through 2016 and 2017, Now we know for certain that the Hillary Clinton Campaign was responsible for creating the dossier. They also paid to have it printed. This became the basis for a New York Times Pulitzer Prize. And it turned out to — 

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (Yes, it’s a separate FBI probe based entirely on different evidence that was generated during the time).

CHRISTIE : George, George, George! George, Operation Crossfire Hurricane was about possible Russian infiltration into the Trump campaign. This dossier is the basis for it.

For over 259 days, the network evening newscasts avoided even saying the name “Hunter Biden” so it’s not surprising that they are attempting to hide ABC, CBS and NBC’s attempts to protect the lies of Clinton, another Democratic powerhouse in trouble.