Posted on 05/24/2017 5:46:53 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
The New York Times dropped another bombshell report on Russian influence on the 2016 election Wednesday, and once again what is presented as salacious news in the headline and lead is revealed to be anything but midway through the report.
Months before the election, U.S. spies learned that top Russians had discussed ways to use Donald Trumps advisers to influence him, reads the headline blasted by TheNYT in a breaking news email. The story is clearly meant to further the Trump colluded with Russia narrative the media has pushed for months, although its as yet totally unsubstantiated.
TheNYT lead builds an atmosphere of wrongdoing around Trump and his campaign aides using important sounding buzzwords and phrases. Spies and revealing information and big-time Russian officials who exert influence. Its quite official sounding and obviously intended to sow suspicion.
But the (few) readers who make it to the fifth paragraph and are paying attention will realize theres not actually much meat to the report. That paragraph hedges on the information collected by the spies, and notes the reporter has no real clue whether Russian officials actually made any attempt to influence the Trump aides in question. Oh yeah and the Trump campaign as well as both aides have consistently denied the longstanding accusations of collusion with Russia.
The information collected last summer was considered credible enough for intelligence agencies to pass to the F.B.I., which during that period opened a counterintelligence investigation that is ongoing, the paragraph reads. It is unclear, however, whether Russian officials actually tried to directly influence Mr. Manafort and Mr. Flynn. Both have denied any collusion with the Russian government on the campaign to disrupt the election.
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(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
that those who familiar with the conversations see
no evidence of wrongdoing or collusion between the campaign and Russia.
the tenth paragraph readers were informed of an important fact:
American officials have said that they have so far found no proof of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Six paragraphs in:
Mr. Brennan acknowledged that he did not know whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian operatives and said the contacts might have been benign.
They are telling lies often to make people believe the lie so they can impeach Trump
Fake news, discredited conspiracy theories.
But, hey, it’s the NY Slimes. What should we expect?
“It is unclear, however, whether the FAKE NEWS OUTLETS (Also known as CNN, MSNBC, CBS ABC) could prove OR UNCOVER ANY EVIDENCE of any collusion at all.”
What utter propagarbage!
I have read most of the NY Times and WaPo articles.
Everything starts with a salacious charge, and then is supported by “anonymous sources,” “is reported to have said,” “confidential reports indicate” - and then some policy wonks and politicians drawing conclusions from these very broad assumptions.
Its complete crap.
If they keep talking like this for another 6 months I’ll stop believing Russia exists.
But WAPO will never, ever, ever give up! Well, maybe tomorrow morning.
Fake News!
Sheer speculation. Bottom line: nothing illegal took place if anything did at all take place. No evidence means report it as if true.
If my kid grew up today he would ask me to check for Russia under his bed, rather than the “Boogie man”.
The Compost needs to dry up and go away. Bezos is a POS
Seems to me that this 'Russians are coming' business started right after...
After that it was all 'Russian Hysteria' from the Olympics to picking on Maria Sharapova.
Ten bucks on Sharapova
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