Posted on 10/25/2016 10:04:12 AM PDT by Dave346
Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt has become the latest high profile figure to accuse RT of conspiring with WikiLeaks in the hacking and release of the #Podesta emails.
Monday saw the whistleblowing website leak its 17th batch of messages from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta and, not for the first time over the last fortnight, RT broke the story prior to WikiLeaks tweeting the announcement.
Bildt’s tweet claiming RT reported on the WikiLeaks releases “before they are released” drew some exasperated responses from Twitter users who pointed out the clear inaccuracy of his statement.
He is far from the first high profile political figure to suggest RT was in some way involved in the Podesta hack.
In early October Christopher Miller, a journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and a freelance writer inaccurately claimed RT had published a story about the email drop before WikiLeaks had posted the documents on its website.
Clinton’s press secretary Brian Fallon made similar claims on Twitter while the campaign’s director of communications, Jennifer Palmieri, accused RT of collusion during a TV interview.
The reality was simply that RT journalists were monitoring the WikiLeaks website and reacted quickest to break the story when the emails were uploaded.
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Moving right along...
RT = Russian Times
Carl Bildt = former Swedish prime minister, foreign minister, and party leader of the Moderates (Swedish Conservative party). He is also a globalist, a europhile, a Clinton admirer, and a politician who has made a fortune by selling....????....influence and power, maybe.
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