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Wednesday, April 03, 2019

Democrats, the Media, and the Big Lie

For the past two and a half years this nation has been roiled by the incessant drumbeat of accusations that its newly elected President, Donald Trump, was a clandestine agent of Russia and colluded with them to alter the outcome of the 2016 election. On their face, these accusations were so preposterous that anyone with a modicum of common sense would have thought them totally unbelievable.

Nonetheless, within 7 months after Trump’s inauguration 54% of all Americans believed he had acted illegally or unethically in his dealings with Russia (80% of Democrats). Within 14 months after the inauguration 66% of Democrats believed Russia tampered with vote tallies in order to get Trump elected and 59% accepted the premise that there were improper relations between the Trump campaign and Russia before the 2016 election.

In what was a staged and unnecessary inquiry, and despite turning over every marginally relevant leaf and conducting a dogged 22-month investigation using partisan prosecutors, Robert Mueller was unable to link Donald Trump or his campaign to even the minutest degree of collusion with the Russian Government. Nonetheless the drumbeat of lies and insinuations was a major factor in the Democrats taking control of the House of Representatives in 2018.

The American citizenry now definitively knows that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians during the presidential campaign of 2016. Further, based on the testimony of Rod Rosenstein and others involved in the Special Counsel probe, the Russians did not tamper with any vote tallies.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's all been a lie, concocted by professional liars, delivered with gusto by the MSM. Don't you just feel.... used?

Anonymous said...

I understand what the MSM is doing, what I don't understand is why. What's in it for them? TV ratings, News paper readers? I guess it comes down to money,apparently the citizens and the constitution don't mean anything if there is enough money involved. Thank GOD we have a President who stands up for people and the country and exposes "The Big Lie".

Anonymous said...

Podesta Clinton Obama

Anonymous said...

Credibility! When does enough become enough? When has anyone heard a politician answer the question posed to them? And when has the MSM "spun" news resembling anything close to facts regarding who, what, when, where, or why? Sadly there are many uninformed and under informed people who hang on the BS spewed. Accountability must be enforced and consequences for untruths.

Anonymous said...

Most people, who have not studied history and how socialist countries are born, don't even get that the MSM is just a willing puppet of a liberal government. They are being played by the Democrats and, in most cases, are complicit in spreading their ideology with which they concur.
In socialist countries, the government controls what the media outlets and what they want the citizens to hear (sound familiar). There is no independent reporting as that would go against narrative.
The left is slowly trying to take away many of our constitutional rights, little by little, and the liberal-left MSM is the Koolaid dispenser, making sure everyone gets a sip so that people begin to group-think that these rights should be abolished.
Not quite convinced? Watch a collage of news snippets on a big news day. Each and every one of the MSM channels will be saying THE EXACT SAME PHRASE. Where does it come from? Pilosi? Shumer? Soros? What MSM 'committe' ensures that the exact, same message makes it to the eyes and ears of the citizens? People hear it so much (Russian collusion, Electoral college, etc.) that they start to believe it.
Stalin, Hitler, Mao Ze Tung... the list goes on of dictators who convinced citizens - via the MSM- that government will take care of you.
2019 is becoming scarier and 2020 will be a pivotal year in our nation's history, just as 2016 was.