“Sources Say,” that Russia held ‘derogatory’ information about the Trump presidential campaign. First there was collusion between the campaign and Russia, now Russia was going to interfere with the Trump campaign.
Before this, Russia was emboldened to meddle in the 2016 presidential election. Previously, Russian president Vladimir Putin was out to get the Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton. Remember, Russia aided WikiLeaks giving Julian Assange all of Hillary’s private emails from her Department of State account that she kept on a secret server in her own house. All of this effort was to get Russia-friendly Donald Trump elected.
And this is how the Ruskies say Spasibo?
Now we learn Russia was preparing a dossier to embarrass Trump. (They are feeding it to us through his own Twitter account.) We have just learned the President’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, called the Russian ambassador and a Russian bank manager. Maybe to introduce himself or check the line of credit on Trump’s account. Either way we know it was definitely nefarious.
All Jared will tell us is that he called thousands of people during and after the campaign, but he doesn’t remember calling Russia. I think I’d remember calling Russia – particularly because I’d be thinking, “How many people are listening to this phone call?”
As a news organization CNN feels it can be as irresponsible as it wants to be, shaping the narrative on a whim and taking the story wherever it wants to go on any given day.
At first the coverage at CNN was all about this Manchurian Candidate that we just elected; that Trump secretly ran for president solely to lift sanctions in place against Russia and build hotels all along the Crimean coast. But now CNN is delighting in the belief Russia has ‘derogatory information’ and just can’t wait for it to come out. Or maybe it won’t. Or maybe it already has and we just can’t tell what is American news and what’s Russia propaganda.
I’m just confused. I’m following the story closely but the bottom line changes with every passing day; Trump did this Trump did that – Jared called so-and-so – Russia meddled in our election and worked feverishly against both candidates to get neither of them elected.
I’ll say this – Russia is hysterical right now that the Americans are doing all of the work for them. What else is new? Russia hasn’t pulled off a successful counter-intelligence op since…when?
The Atomic Bomb secrets were all willingly handed over to them by communist sympathizers within and around the Manhattan Project. People who believed in a communist ideal but had no idea the Soviets were robbing the populace blind and killing them off in horrifying numbers. Every Soviet mole approached them first – disgruntled CIA and FBI employees who thought they deserved a better station in life. The KGB – while effective – arguably did nothing themselves but read USA Today and Newsweek and pass the information off as their own sneaky, clandestine snooping. The toughest part about infiltrating the US for them was getting a library card.
I can sum up this Russia investigation into meddling thusly: Not impressed. Tell me something they found out on their own or used against an embattled target. Someone please give me a tidbit of information that originates from within Russia itself, not something that comes from a “source within” the White House, a Congressional office, or the US intelligence agency itself.
So far all I’ve heard is Russia attaching their name to everything that scrolls across the bottom of the television screen that passes for news. CNN is working hard on their behalf, and the United States, et al, is giving the Russians far too much credit than they deserve. The Russians can’t even break into my WordPress site, yet we’ve let them break into our news and politics?
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