A good summary of the Russiagate affair that heavily involved the CIA. The CIA hid the fact the Russians did not really support Trump because it would have ruined the Trump-Russia political narrative. This makes sense since the Clintons were involved in the CIA drug running from when Bill was the Governor of Arkansas during the Iran-Contra affair (look up The Clinton Chronicles doco).
The idea of Russiagate seems to have come from the Clinton camp, and the Deep State backed her shenanigans. Trump had no ties to Russia, which people in the alternative media could see.
The alt media was all over the Russiagate lies from the very beginning. Anyone with any sense could see that these claims were baseless, especially considering the DNC email 'Russia hack claims' were clearly a leak (from the since murdered Seth Rich). Other claims, such as the hotel scandal, and ties to the Kremlin, were ridiculous when juxtaposed to Trump's actual activities - where we know the Trump organisation was given no special treatment from Moscow and failed in their business dealings there. Other aspects of the hoax are mentioned in the video. The Duran covered it extensively at the time, and so did the strongly left leaning Grey Zone, among other outlets such as Infowars (which people might see as biased). On the other hand the MSM uncritically swallowed up the lies and reported them with a straight face.
Anyone still believing in the Russiagate claims today, even after the crooked Deep State connected FBI found no evidence to support it, are living in a TDS fantasy land.
All of this does not mean Trump gets a blank check either, but these are lies. If you consider yourself a serious analyst when it comes to this sort of thing, and you got taken in by these lies, then you should not consider yourself a very objective analyst. All it took was a look into the alt media critique of this affair. Outright ignoring the alt media analysis, which provided broader context, would necessarily lead one to jump to the wrong conclusions - particularly if one was getting their info only from the MSM or their alt media proxies (pseudo alt media).
Perhaps, beyond simply picking between the alt media and the MSM the question to ask is what side is providing the broadest context and critique? Whose critique overrides the other one in terms of facts and context, where they are identifying clear spin/misinformation, as opposed to reporting it (the spin) with a straight fact? This is how you can determine who is being more honest with their reporting.
[Posted at the
SpookyWeather2 blog, March 13, 2024.]
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