Posted on 10/22/2016 12:43:14 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
In August 2016, Politico reported top Democrats held a conference call discussing damage control surrounding future releases from WikiLeaks, apparently deciding to collectively allege the leaks will include fabricated content. In a desperate and sloppy attempt to create a link between Russia and Donald Trump, Newsweek writer Kurt Eichenwald wrote an article titled Dear Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, I am not Sidney Blumenthal. The article claimed the publication Sputnik and Trump coordinated an attack on Hillary Clinton.
In reality, Sputnik news editor and Georgetown graduate Bill Moran rushed to publish a story about a WikiLeaks email in which Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal copy and pasted an Eichenwald article about Benghazi and sent it to Clinton campaign chair John Podesta. Moran misidentified the writer of the piece as Blumenthal, and quickly wrote and published a story about it. Trump tweeted the article, and cited it during a speech at a rally in Pennsylvania.
Once Sputnik became aware the article had misinterpreted the email, they removed it. Eichenwald, without researching what had happened, claimed Trump citing the article was proof of a conspiracy between Trump and Russia. Eichenwalds article was used by Clinton partisans as evidence WikiLeaks had released fake documents.
Moran attempted to reach out to Eichenwald to correct his story. Eichenwald blocked him on Twitter, and the two engaged in bizarre correspondence via email, which was later published by Paste Magazine and confirmed as legitimate by Eichenwald.
Obama’s neo-con war mongering will only be exceeded by Hillary.....the rich foment wars that the poor are conned into fighting....Trump is a threat to the war pre-emptive war being fomented with Russia.
Yes, it is horrible!
“apparently deciding to collectively allege the leaks will include fabricated content”
I contend it is very difficult to fabricate emails in context.
Just wag the dog, smoke and mirrors to get her more voter support. Again, it was the O admin who set Russia up to be where they are today. While they made the Russians substantially stronger, they made us substantially weaker. If that isn't a recipe for disaster, I don't know what is. Putin couldn't have hoped to have had a more accommodating administration than this one, despite all the BS talking going on. There's no way they would prefer a much tougher Trump-Pence admin, particularly with Pence being fully on to what Putin is up to and openly speaking about it.
“Moran”...looks like everybody is having trouble with auto-spell correction
Seriously !
Please read the article in its entirety, it was actually an excerpt that I neglected to note.
The rats utter disdain for the intelligence of their supporters has been one of the many revelations from this campaign.
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