Before leaving for India to meet with 69-year-old Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 73-year-old President Donald Trump fired back at the press for the latest Russian hoax. Trump accused 59-year-old House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), lead impeachment manager, of leaking a phony intel report suggesting that Russia is covertly working to back Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to help Trump win reelection in November. New York Times proves again that it’s the leading purveyor of fake news, citing another unnamed intel official making more Russian claims. Phony Russian claims started in 2016 by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton whose paid opposition research, AKA “The Steele Dossier,” fabricated claims of Trump’s Russian ties. So much Russian hysteria swept Congress they pressured the Department of Justice [DOJ] to appoint a Special Counsel May 17, 2017.
Former Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein under enormous Congressional pressure appointed 75-year-old former FBI Director Robert Mueller to conduct the investigation, one week after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. Rosenstein didn’t see the bigger picture that Comey was engaged in an illegal counter-intelligence investigation of Trump, lying to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] court to get warrants to wiretap Trump campaign officials. That’s how the Russian hoax got started but that’s also how it continues. In his Final Report March 23, 2019, after 22-months and $40 million, Mueller concluded that neither Trump nor anyone in his campaign conspired with Russian to win the 2016 election. Mueller admitted that Russia was trying to help elect Trump but couldn’t say how Russian covert efforts changed one American vote in 2016.
Now another unnamed intel sources claims that Russian’s once again involved with a disinformation campaign to help Bernie and Trump. Yet intel officials can’t say how Russian presence in Social Media changes any votes in the 2020 presidential campaign. Desperate for influence after losing the Mueller Report and impeachment trial, Trump accused Schiff of leaking more propaganda to the media. “There’s no intelligence that said the Russians are trying to help Donald Trump win elections,” Vice President Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff Marc Short told Chris Wallace of “Fox News Sunday” today. “I know the White House argument,” said Wallace, hoping to get Short to agree with the latest fake news intel report. Without verified sources, Wallace should not needle Short about the “possibility” of new Russian meddling, something not verified by anyone other than the New York Times.
New York Times was the same paper that gave credibility to Stormy Daniels former attorney Michael Avenatti, now facing years in prison for extorting Nike Inc. That’s the same New York Times that confirmed on many occasions Russian collusion, accusing former Trump aid Carter Page and George Papadopoulos of Russian spying. That’s the same New York Times that backed everything Comey did to spy on the Trump campaign to help Hillary get elected. Neither Page nor Papadopoulos were ever charged with anything. Yet were the subjects of illegal FBI investigations. U.S. Atty. John Durham (R-Conn.) is busy working with a grand jury on possible indictments of Comey and other high-ranking FBI officials, including fomer Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and former agent Peter Strzok. Yet Wallace runs with another fake news story hammering Short on national TV.
Wallace has his own ax to grind, having been slammed by Trump on Twitter for pushing Democrats’ Russian conspiracy theories. “There is a consistent story that came out this week and we’ve heard it from member of the committee, from members of the intelligence community, we’re heard it form people in your own White House,” Wallace told Short. What Wallace doesn’t say is that there’s no identified source of the intel leak about more Russian meddling. What’s known for sure to Wallace is that the New York Times, Washington Post and other anti-Trump publicans, write stories from unnamed sources to advance an anti-Trump agenda. Wallace, too, either’s duped by media reports or holds so much antipathy toward Trump that it skews his reporting. “You can’t say it didn’t happen and the say they leaked it!” Wallace told short. Wallace can’t say anything about an intel report when he has no sources.
White House officials face more disinformation from the U.S. press than anything coming out of Moscow or any other foreign capital. When the nation’s leading newspapers routinely build stories around anonymous sources, it speaks volumes how the fake news advance political agendas. Whatever any new intel report reveals, there can be no credibility without identifying the actual sources. Trump accused Schiff of once again leaking to the press for the purposes of discrediting Trump heading into the 2020 election. Schiff and other House Democrats couldn’t take Trump down with the Mueller Report or failed impeachment proceedings. Talking more about Russian interference is another last-ditch attempt to gain more anti-Trump traction heading into the election. When a Feb. 4 Gallup Poll found Trump’s approval rating at 49%, Democrats and the liberal press freaked out: Time for more Russian nonsense.
