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Jake Tapper Is Lying About CNN’s Key Role In The Russia Collusion Hoax
the Federalist ^ | 10/29/24 | Mollie Hemingway

Posted on 10/29/2024 9:30:35 AM PDT by CFW

On Jan. 12, 2017, I appeared on a CNN panel to discuss current events. It was memorable, and not just because we were taping from the roof of a building near the U.S. Capitol as part of the outlet’s special coverage of Trump’s first inauguration. Just as we were about to go on, we were significantly delayed by President Barack Obama surprising Vice President Joe Biden with a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

As I recall, there were maybe five or six of us on set, including former Obama political appointee Jim Sciutto and host Jake Tapper, two of the four authors of the most important story of the entire Russia collusion hoax. “Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him” had been published just two days prior, followed up by BuzzFeed publishing the actual document claiming widespread collusion between Trump and Russia. That document — which nine months later was revealed to have been secretly bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democrat National Committee — included salacious lies about Trump supposedly paying prostitutes to urinate on a bed that the Obamas had slept in during a visit to a fancy Moscow hotel. The hysteria was such that many people wondered if Donald Trump would make it to the inauguration.

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I was one of the exceedingly few who didn’t. I thought Hillary Clinton’s Russia information operation was silly before the election, and when she turned to it as an explanation of her loss, I thought a likelier explanation was that Americans liked Trump’s policies and disliked hers. I said so on television during December, when faulty and weak intelligence assessments from the Obama administration were issued in an effort to legitimize her stance.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arrestjaketapper; cnnsedition; coupaccomplice; harassment; hoax; jaketapper; lies; persecution; r; russiancollusion; trump
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Ms. Hemingway could have stopped after "Jake Tapper Lies" and the headline would still be correct. I don't think I can recall anything he has reported on in which he told the truth.

Anyway, this article is worth the read even though it makes you mad all over again at what Clinton, the Democrats, the DOJ/FBI, and the media put this nation through during the 4 years of Trump's Presidency. And they continue to this day.

1 posted on 10/29/2024 9:30:35 AM PDT by CFW
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If he’s talking, he’s lying.


2 posted on 10/29/2024 9:36:43 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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Jake Tapper is a Democratic operative who once dated Monica Lewinsky and is married to a one-time Planned Parenthood executive. The fact that someone as horrible as him actually seems relatively mild compared to the worst of the mainstream media propagandists is indicative of how bad things are


3 posted on 10/29/2024 9:37:15 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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Jake Tapper Is Lying About

EVERYTHING! He is a presstitute to his rotten core.

4 posted on 10/29/2024 9:40:10 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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You beat me to it.


5 posted on 10/29/2024 9:41:54 AM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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Jake Tapper is a Democratic operative who once dated Monica Lewinsky...

Wow! I didn’t know this!


6 posted on 10/29/2024 9:42:33 AM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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“Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him” had been published just two days prior, followed up by BuzzFeed publishing the actual document claiming widespread collusion between Trump and Russia. That document — which nine months later was revealed to have been secretly bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democrat National Committee — included salacious lies about Trump supposedly paying prostitutes to urinate on a bed that the Obamas had slept in during a visit to a fancy Moscow hotel.

Tapper and intel thugs lied? Oh how can it be? I'm getting the vapors just thinking about it... falling fainting...

7 posted on 10/29/2024 9:43:45 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat fraud: They vote the people who don't show up to vote. Everything else is red herring...)
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I did think he played the offended man-of-integrity role fairly well when JD pressed him on this matter a bit. He was almost convincing, which simply means he is an exceptionally good liar. Nevertheless, it is interesting to see how they squirm when their motives are questioned (as they do so often to others).


8 posted on 10/29/2024 9:47:34 AM PDT by Belteshazzar
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My immediate thought was the same as yours: “Jake Tapper Is Lying” is the default position when speaking of this pompous so-and-so.


9 posted on 10/29/2024 9:49:56 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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Maybe I’m not remembering correctly, but about 10 (or more) years ago, I seem to remember Tapper as more of a “middle of the aisle” guy. He seemed to be pretty fair to both sides?


10 posted on 10/29/2024 9:56:25 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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JD Vance handed Fake Tapper his hat the other day.

It was priceless.


11 posted on 10/29/2024 9:57:10 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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Folks, this article is well-worth reading, and took her quite a while to compile.


12 posted on 10/29/2024 10:10:08 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Tapper said they were just reporting on an FBI investigation. No. You were reporting on anonymous leaks about an “investigation.” You knew it was BS and at a minimum you knew you were being used and played. But you were happy to play along because it gave you an opportunity to trash Trump on a daily basis.


13 posted on 10/29/2024 10:15:17 AM PDT by circlecity
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I did think he played the offended man-of-integrity role fairly well when JD pressed him on this matter a bit. He was almost convincing, which simply means he is an exceptionally good liar. Nevertheless, it is interesting to see how they squirm when their motives are questioned (as they do so often to others).

It's not a lie, if you believe it. George Costanza

14 posted on 10/29/2024 10:24:35 AM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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The defining — and most disgraceful — moment in Jake Tapper’s career occurred during CNN’s Election Night coverage in 2016. At several different points in that broadcast as the night, he used the word “we” or “us” to describe Hillary Clinton’s fading fortunes in his conversations with Wolf Blitzer — as in, “What path do we still have for victory here?”

After the second or third time he spoke like this, Blitzer was so surprised and embarrassed that he actually turned his head and looked at the camera — to check and see if Tapper had the audacity to speak like that while they were broadcasting live.

15 posted on 10/29/2024 10:30:51 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Well, maybe I'm a little rough around the edges; inside a little hollow.” -- Tom Petty, “Rebels”)
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“Maybe I’m not remembering correctly, but about 10 (or more) years ago, I seem to remember Tapper as more of a “middle of the aisle” guy. He seemed to be pretty fair to both sides?”

I vaguely have that recollection also. Whether that initial impression was accurate or not, Tapper sure fits in with the uber leftist journalist crowd now.


16 posted on 10/29/2024 10:30:53 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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Indeed. He can’t even attempt to hide his contempt for Trump.


17 posted on 10/29/2024 10:32:00 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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So ... basically ... the title should be, “Jake Tapper Is Lying”. That’s all he does!!


18 posted on 10/29/2024 10:32:36 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the felon with the pierced ear.)
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Takeaway from the article:
Jake Tapper wasn’t “covering” an FBI investigation into Russia collusion. He was willing to work with them in an information operation alleging that the 2016 election was stolen. If I knew it was all a big scam by Jan. 12, 2017, he knew even earlier.
Hemingway does a great job reviewing the entire ridiculous but nefarious Russia!Russia!Russia!Gate. Worth the read.
19 posted on 10/29/2024 11:09:10 AM PDT by nicollo (Remember when we had to close tags?)
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That group claimed that the author of the dossier was Christopher Steele, who they pitched to the press as some kind of former British super spy. He turned out to be something of a politically motivated joke who had outsourced the collection of information to a guy who seemed to brainstorm outlandish ideas for the dossier with his drinking buddies...

When Smith published what it actually was, everyone outside of DC and New York could see it was hilariously juvenile. It was so stupid that you had to be an idiot to believe it.

At the time, the people at 4Chan were taking credit for the "juvenile" stories in the dossier.

See from the Wayback Machine: ZeroHedge (1/11/2017): Archived Posts Prove 4Chan Trolled CIA With Trump Golden Shower Story - Entire Russian Hack Narrative Imploding?

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In a story that is getting more surreal by the minute, a post on 4Chan now claims that the infamous "golden showers" scene in the unverified 35-page dossier, allegedly compiled by a British intelligence officer, was a hoax and fabricated by a member of the chatboard as "fanfiction", then sent to Rick Wilson, who proceeded to send it to the CIA, which then put it in their official classified intelligence report on the election.

Here is 4Chan's explanation of how the story came to light:

Click the link to the Wayback Machine article to see the archived 4Chan discussion threads for yourself.

-PJ

20 posted on 10/29/2024 11:23:25 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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