Posted on 11/27/2020 7:47:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There is perhaps no less self-aware, or no less shameless if you rightly assume bad motives, of a group than the mainstream media. They manage to routinely do the very things they are currently denigrating others for, all the while pretending to be vastly morally and intellectually superior. Pushing conspiracy theories over the last four years may be the most egregious example of this, with CNN and MSNBC, among many others, essentially becoming no better than Alex Jones (and at least he’s entertaining).
Remember, these are the same people who insisted for four long years that Donald Trump was a Russian agent, that the 2016 election was “hacked,” and that Hillary Clinton had the election “stolen” from her.
Well, Trump just blew up the media’s most current, fevered conspiracy theory. Namely, that the President would have to be frog-marched out of the White House to the cheers of the far-left because he would otherwise refuse to leave office.
Trump says he'll leave White House if Biden declared winner of Electoral College https://t.co/h5r0LoJweL pic.twitter.com/OUrTEqY6sx
— The Hill (@thehill) November 27, 2020
President Trump on Thursday said he would leave the White House on Jan. 20 if the Electoral College declares President-elect Joe Biden the winner of the election, but indicated he was not prepared to concede defeat.
“Certainly I will. And you know that,” said Trump when asked if he would leave the White House if the Electoral College voted for Biden.
Wait, you mean the billionaire who’s married to a model and has his own Boeing 757 doesn’t care about fulfilling Don Lemon’s fantasies? Who could have foreseen this?
This was always the dumbest of conspiracy theories. It was also the most self-absorbed. While the expectation that Trump would attempt some kind of military coup was always ridiculous, the real reason behind its prevalence was because the media and their left-wing base desire to see Trump punished. They wanted him to attempt a coup so they could then play the role of protector, heroically removing the President from office while simultaneously confirming every crazed assertion they’ve made.
If the electoral college selects Joe Biden in December, Trump will leave office and Biden will be sworn in. That’s a reality that even Trump himself has accepted, though he’s never promised to stop fighting until all options are exhausted. Further, the President is not going to be sent to prison. He’s going to go fly on his big private jet and use his gold plated toilets. None of the wild conspiracy theories the media have pushed are real, and that’s been obvious for a very long time.
That the media spent the past year hypothesizing insanity that would make Coast to Coast blush is simply an indictment on how useless and partisan they truly are.
Later.
The “Trump-Russia collusion” story was of course a hoax, a COVER, to hide what THEY (the notoriously traitorous Democrats) were doing, as the only evidence for Russia collusion involves THEM!
1) Soon-to-be unclassified docs reportedly state (surprise-surprise) Russians actually wanted HILLARY to win, not Trump! Obama CIA chief Brennan hid the evidence!!
2) Top Putin aids (Vladislav Surkov and Vyacheslav Trubnikov) provided disinformation (fake ‘dirt’) on Trump! (via RUSSIAN AGENT Igor Danchenko) for Clinton campaign/DNC paid-for Steele dossier!!
3) Burisma owner [Mykola Zlochevsky] was/is a RUSSIA ALLY! Joe Biden’s son worked for and brought in millions from Burisma. Joe is ON VIDEO BRAGGING about extorting the Ukrainians into firing the prosecutor who was investigating his son and the corrupt RUSSIA-ALLIED owner of the company.
4) Obama-Biden DENIED desperately requested military assistance to Ukraine
...during the Russia invasion of Crimea!!
5) For 8 years the Obama-Biden-Clinton admin immensely HELPED the Russians, via Obama’s promised and delivered “flexibility” on missile defense, the Russia-favoring New Start nuke treaty, the Putin-loving Iran deal (Iran and Syria are pawns of Russia in the oil/gas-rich Middle East), the Uranium-One deal, where Obama-Hillary allowed Russia to take ownership of 20% of our uranium production!
6) They (Obama-Biden) deliberately slashed OUR military to pieces. Fortunately, Trump has since brought it back times 10.
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Tuesday revealed a bombshell allegation that Hillary Clinton ordered “a campaign plan to stir up a scandal” by linking President Trump to Russia in 2016 — and that then-President Barack Obama knew about her possible role.
Ratcliffe disclosed the information in a letter published by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) just hours before Trump debates Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who was vice president at the time.
Clinton’s alleged July 2016 plot would tar Trump by “tying him to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee,” Ratcliffe wrote Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Handwritten notes by then-CIA Director John Brennan, who now is a fiery anti-Trump commentator, say that Brennan briefed Obama on “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.” ...”
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Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell is working to declassify documents relating to the investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and, according to Fox News’ Ed Henry, some of those declassified documents will actually show a Russian effort to benefit Hillary Clinton during the election, not Donald Trump.
Henry told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that four or five new batches of intelligence are being declassified, one of which contains an assessment that Brennan sought to suppress, showing that Russia wanted Clinton to win. ...”
“Remember the U.S. intel community came out with that remarkable statement, an assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, and most importantly the intel report claimed that Russia interfered because they wanted Donald Trump to win,” Henry said. “That of course followed the narrative of the now-discredited Steele Dossier.
Well, it turns out Obama’s CIA chief, John Brennan also had intel saying ‘actually Russia wanted Hillary Clinton to win because she was a known quantity, she had been secretary of state, and Vladimir Putin’s team thought she was more malleable...”
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In an effort to depict Donald Trump as if he were in an espionage conspiracy with the Kremlin, the Obama administration used bogus information, from a man the FBI suspected was an actual Russian spy”
It turns out that Igor Danchenko, the man the FBI suspected of being an actual Russian spy, initially provided the bogus information about the American, Carter Page, through a former British spy, Christopher Steele.
Through a couple of cut-outs, Steele had been retained by the Clinton campaign to dig up — or, alas, to make up — Russian dirt on Trump. Through his private intelligence business in London, Steele was known to be working for Russian oligarchs, while Danchenko was on Steele’s payroll.
That is, the Clinton campaign, and ultimately the Obama administration, colluded with Russians for the purpose of accusing Donald Trump of . . . yes . . . colluding with Russians.”
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, Sept 26, 2020
Sept 2020, right? Well, this will certainly be well publicized before the election, won’t it.
After all, Biden’s corruption and his family’s connections to Russia-Ukraine money were “all over” the democrats ABCNNBCBS mass media for weeks.
/sarchasm
That was an old piece I had made up several months ago.
I need to check and update that part regarding the docs showing Russia actually wanted Hillary. Not sure if it ever was released.
Re: Hunter Biden and Burisma
Ukrainian gas giant Burisma is owned by Mykola Zlochevsky, a close ally of Russian president Putin. In fact, he was an official in the “puppet” regime that Putin had installed in the Ukraine through a rigged election [energy minister and later deputy national security council chair]. The former ‘puppet’ president was thrown out of office in 2014 following Ukraine’s “Euromaidan revolution” and immediately went into hiding in Russia where he remains today wanted in Ukraine for the crime of high treason.
That said...
“PUTIN’S FRIEND was paying Joe’s son three, four, five, possibly more, millions of dollars. And he got under investigation.”
—Rudy Giuliani
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Rudy Giuliani, Sean Hannity show, Fox News, May 2019:
GIULIANI: He [Hunter Biden] was working for the most corrupt company in the Ukraine [Burisma]. He was working for a Ukrainian oligarch who was being protected by Putin. The same Putin that we have been hearing about for all this time, right? Imagine that.
GIULIANI [continuing]: Putin’s friend was paying Joe’s son three, four, five, possibly more, millions of dollars. And he got under investigation. And Joe bragged two years later that he got the prosecutor general fired. He just left out of it that the prosecutor general was investigating his son and his son’s crooked boss [Putin’s friend]. And then afterwards, the case disappeared.
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Massive bribe to stop Ukraine probe of Burisma founder intercepted
by Bradford Betz | Fox News | June 14, 2020
[excerpt]
Ukrainian officials on Saturday announced they intercepted a $6 million bribe attempt to stop a criminal investigation into the president of Burisma ...”
[Ukraine’s anti-corruption prosecutor Nazar] Kholodnitsky and the head of the national anti-corruption bureau, Artem Sytnik, said the bribe was intended to encourage their offices to halt a probe of Mykola Zlochevsky, the head of Burisma and a former minister of ecology. Zlochevsky was accused of using his ministerial position for personal enrichment.
Three people, including a high-ranking tax service official, have been detained in connection with the attempted bribe, officials said Saturday.
In a statement, Burisma claimed the company had nothing to do with any bribe attempt.
“Neither Burisma Group President Mykola Zlochevsky nor other employees of the company have any relationship to the voiced events,” the company said. “Mykola Zlochevsky didn’t ask for anyone to commit wrong actions and never contributed to such actions.”
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“PRO-RUSSIAN corrupt officials”
—Rudy Giuliani
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[Rudy] Giuliani: “The fact is, this was a massive collusion between the Democratic National Committee, officials of the Obama administration, (Hillary) Clinton people, and the Ukrainian officials, corrupt officials — who, by the way, were pro-Russian corrupt officials”
If the backlash which is coming was the French Revolution style, thousands of scumedia enemies would have their heads rolling into a basket. The scumedia has gladly transformed from a fourth estate in a Constitutional Republic into a fifth column assembly for the enemies of our we the people Republic. The media deserve firing squads.
Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the richest woman in Russia and the widow of Yury Luzhkov, the former mayor of Moscow, Senate Republicans revealed in their report on the younger Biden’s work in Ukraine.
Baturina is referenced in the 87-page report, which was released Wednesday, addressing her payment to Biden’s investment firm in early 2014. ...”
Below, from DailyMail, October 7, 2020
“It was only last month [Sept 2020] when Baturina’s connection to Hunter Biden came to light in the recent GOP report from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
The report stated the [total 3.5 MILLION] transactions occurred in February 2014 - while Joe Biden was still vice president.”
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Below, from Wikipedia (re: date of Russia invasion of Crimea)
“The Crimean Peninsula, north of the Black Sea in Europe, was annexed by the Russian Federation between February and March 2014 and since then has been administered as two Russian federal subjects—the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol.[40]
The annexation from Ukraine followed a Russian military intervention in Crimea that took place in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and was part of wider unrest across southern and eastern Ukraine.[41][42] ...”
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Re: former Mayor of Moscow
Below, from the Washington Post.
“Projecting authority far beyond that of an ordinary city boss, Mr. Luzhkov [former mayor of Moscow] advocated for the restoration of Russia’s influence over its former Soviet neighbors, foreshadowing the policies that in recent years have bolstered the popularity of President Vladimir Putin.
He argued that Crimea belonged to Russia two decades before Putin annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.”
Article: Yuri Luzhkov, transformative Moscow mayor, dies at 83
by David Filipov, Washington Post, Dec 10, 2019
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Re: 2014 Russia invasion of Crimea
“During the Ukrainian prime minister’s visit to Washington last week [Mar 2014], his government urgently requested military assistance.
The [Obama administration] Pentagon refused. It offered instead military [food] ration kits.
Putin mobilizes thousands of troops, artillery and attack helicopters on Ukraine’s borders and Washington counters with baguettes, American-style.
One thing we can say for sure in these uncertain times: The invasion of Ukraine will be catered by the United States.
Why did we [Obama admin] deny Ukraine weapons?
Because in the Barack Obama-John Kerry worldview, arming the victim might be taken as a provocation.
This kind of mind-bending illogic has marked the administration’s response to the whole Crimea affair.
Why, after all, did Obama delay responding to Putin’s infiltration, military occupation and seizure of Crimea in the first place?”
—Washington Post, March 20, 2014
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“On 21 September 2016, Luzhkov’s 80th birthday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree awarding him [Yury Luzhkov] the Order of Merit of the Fatherland...”
—Wikipedia
“When Donald Trump and I observe that, as I’ve said, in Syria, in Iran, in Ukraine, that the small and bullying leader of Russia has been stronger on the world stage than this administration, that’s stating painful facts. That’s not an endorsement of Vladimir Putin — that’s an indictment of the weak and feckless leadership of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.” ...”
What we’re dealing with is the, you know, there’s an old proverb that says the Russian bear never dies, it just hibernates.
And the truth of the matter is, the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has awakened an aggression in Russia that first appeared a few years ago with their move in Georgia, now their move into Crimea, now their move into the wider Middle East."
Too bad. I hope trump leads a revolt.
Donald Trump slammed President Obama Thursday on TODAY for failing to take a stronger line against President Vladimir Putin in dealing with Ukraine, saying he feared Obama would now make up for lost time with imprudent moves to “show his manhood.”
The real estate mogul and reality-TV star, who has criticized Putin for sending military troops into Crimea, said Obama must now take fierce steps to prevent the situation from escalating further.
“We should definitely do sanctions and we have to show some strengths.
I mean, Putin has eaten Obama’s lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time,” Trump said. ...”
Pushing conspiracy theories over the last four years may be the most egregious example of this, with CNN and MSNBC, among many others, essentially becoming no better than Alex Jones (and at least he’s entertaining).
At least Jones has been proven correct most times. Unlike the Media.
Fox News’ Ed Henry reported Tuesday evening that Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has declassified information calling into question the conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump.
Henry told Tucker Carlson on Tucker Carlson Tonight that the new information would suggested John Brennan, who headed the Central Intelligence Agency under President Barack Obama, “also had intel saying, actually, Russia wanted Hillary Clinton to win because she was a known quantity, she had been secretary of state, and Vladimir Putin’s team thought she was more malleable, while candidate Donald Trump was unpredictable.”
Former National Security Council chief of staff Fred Fleitz made a similar claim in an article on FoxNews.com April 22:
House Intelligence Committee staff told me that after an exhaustive investigation reviewing intelligence and interviewing intelligence officers, they found that Brennan suppressed high-quality intelligence suggesting that Putin actually wanted the more predictable and malleable Clinton to win the 2016 election.
Instead, the Brennan team included low-quality intelligence that failed to meet intelligence community standards to support the political claim that Russian officials wanted Trump to win, House Intelligence Committee staff revealed. They said that CIA analysts also objected to including that flawed, substandard information in the assessment.
On Tuesday, Henry said that he had obtained independent confirmation of the claims made by Fleitz in that report.
For three years, the received wisdom in Washington has been that 17 intelligence agencies concluded that Russia had interfered in the election to help Trump win. It then transpired that only four agencies had actually been involved.
The Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by embattled Republican Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), issued a report last month that appeared to confirm the work of the intelligence agencies.
However, that conclusion may soon be contradicted.
President Trump has accepted the claim that Russia interfered in the election — though he does not believe Russia actually helped him win, and he has publicly cast doubt on the idea that Russia preferred him over Clinton, his Democratic rival.
Breitbart News noted in 2017: “[T]he Russians may just as well have preferred Hillary Clinton, who had given Russia everything it wanted while serving as President Barack Obama’s Secretary of State — from the ill-fated “reset,” to a surrender of U.S. missile defenses in Eastern Europe, to the sale of 20% of America’s uranium reserves to a Russian company closely tied to the Russian state.”
“This could be a bombshell,” Henry told Carlson on Tuesday.
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