Russia-headlined articles like this are click-bait that works for their audience. So the Times publishes known non-stories with Russia-Trump headlines. The Times does this for two reasons, 1) for the clicks, and 2) to get their fake news out there and make broad unfounded statements in an authoritarian manner, as if true.
The New York Times knows all this. They know this is a non-news story and the lurid click-bait headline is belied in the article itself.
The excerpt above is buried in the middle and discredits this specific Russia-collusion accusation and shows their own headline to be not true. The Times article reports that nothing ever happened such as is implied in the headline, there was no collusion with Russia in this instance and the accused Trump associate didn't even have the connections he claims.
Normally that means end of story, bad tip, dead end. So why publish the story?
The New York Times needs clicks because it is failing and knows sensational Russia headlines bring in the clicks.
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So, NYT gets clicks and they get to insert their unfounded talking points. Notice these empty, non-specific and meaningless sentences included in this fake story:
"American intelligence agencies have concluded that the Russian government interfered with the 2016 presidential election to try to help Mr. Trump. Investigators want to know whether anyone on Mr. Trumps team was part of that process."
The above passage was presented in the article well prior to the section of the article that discredited these claims of Russian collusion.
To summarize, the NYT publishes an article with a sensational and lurid headline claiming and implying a "smoking gun" on Trump and Russia, yet the article itself openly and knowingly discredits the headline's claims, details how this is a red herring, and all the while includes political talking points, half truths and broad generalizations not relevant to the specific report.
Classic Yellow Journalism.
Do the Russians go in and hire all the people who go to Trump’s rallies?
NYT = Not Yielding to Truth
Dont believe these Lying Leftist Media outlets that proved themselves during the 2016 campaign to be operatives of the DNC and intentional liars. They are presumed to be lying and we should presume what they publish is a lie. The presumption can only be rebutted with the outlet providing clear and convincing evidence they are not lying.
We should be mostly publishing the truth on FR, not the lies, and as much good news as possible to bolster morale. We should find and post reliable sources that have already deconstructed the lie and replaced it with the truth and with a headline that says the truth. We need much more of that on FR IMO. The key is the headline and the first few sentences because not everyone has time to drill down. The endless stream of negative, lying headlines sabotages our purpose IMO.
Thanks for your clear analysis of the fake News piece from the NY Slimes.
Beware of Click bait warning is all over this fake news bs.
P.S. He's not the guy who wrote Bambi. Far from it.
Hey NYSlimes. Pssssst. H O U S T O N
Plus this is a recycled story from months ago that led to nowhere at that time as well.
Not to be confused with Felix Salten.
Well, they’re “sort of” right: Hillary’s corruption with her Russian (and all other international sales and bribery) condemned HILLARY to losing. It’s just that every other republican candidate of the 16 was going to lose anyway to her and her democrat-socialist-communist press corpse ... except Trump.
Update... Felix Sater is suing over attacks on him via the Clinton-funded Russian-fed Steele Dossier. The case involves Kazakhstan and Hunter Biden.
If you ever want to see the difference between the unhappiness and doom of the Left and the optimism and happiness of the right...you need only to go to or watch a President Trump rally.
The difference is stark! The difference is between utter despair...depending on government, and the utter contentment of depending on yourself.
It’s magic. That’s why besides the Left’s strategy of controlling and indoctrinating our children, demolishing our individualism...the right wants FREEDOM FOR OUR CHILDREN, which results in happiness. Something about which the Left knows NOTHING.