{"id":31366,"date":"2018-02-21T11:15:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T16:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31366"},"modified":"2018-02-21T11:15:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T16:15:35","slug":"russiagate-isnt-about-trump-and-it-isnt-even-ultimately-about-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31366","title":{"rendered":"Russiagate Isn\u2019t About Trump, And It Isn\u2019t Even Ultimately About\u00a0Russia\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russiagate Isn\u2019t About Trump, And It Isn\u2019t Even Ultimately About\u00a0Russia\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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MSNBC\u2019s Chris Hayes recently asked a question<\/a> of his Twitter following that was so heavily loaded it wouldn\u2019t be permitted on most interstate highways: \u201cAside from genuine cranks, is there anyone left denying it was the Russians that committed criminal sabotage in the American election?\u201d<\/p>\n

Hayes asked this fake question because he works for MSNBC and it is therefore his job, and he asked it in response to a report first made viral by deranged espionage LARPer Eric Garland<\/a> that a Dutch intelligence agency had been observing Russian hackers attacking US political parties in advance of the 2016 election. Like all \u201cbombshell\u201d Russiagate reports, this one roared through social media like wildfire carried on the wings of liberal hysteria about the current administration, only to be exposed as being riddled with gaping plot holes as documented here<\/a> by independent journalist Suzie Dawson. The report revolves around an allegedly Russian cyber threat now known in the west as \u201cCozy Bear\u201d, which as Real News<\/em>\u2019 Max Blumenthal notes<\/a>is not a network of hackers but \u201ca Russian-sounding name the for-profit firm Crowdstrike assigned to an APT to market its findings to gullible reporters desperate for Russiagate scoops.\u201d<\/p>\n

This \u201cbombshell\u201d overlapped with another as it was reported by the New York Times<\/em><\/a> that at one point many months ago Trump had wanted to fire Robert Mueller, but then didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

*Cough.*<\/p>\n

Why does this keep happening? Why does the public keep getting sold a mountain of suspicion with zero substance? Over and over and over again these \u201cbombshell\u201d stories come out about Trump and Russia, Russia and Trump, only to be debunked<\/a>, retracted<\/a>, or erased from the spotlight<\/a> after people start actually reading the allegations and thinking critically about them and see they\u2019re not the shocking bombshells they purport to be?<\/p>\n

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Russiagate Isn\u2019t About Trump, And It Isn\u2019t Even Ultimately About\u00a0Russia\u00a0 MSNBC\u2019s Chris Hayes recently asked a question of his Twitter following that was so heavily loaded it wouldn\u2019t be permitted on most interstate highways: \u201cAside from genuine cranks, is there anyone left denying it was the Russians that committed criminal sabotage in the American election?\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[17039,18758,7844,14273,1426,8213,655,1740,694,15282,827],"class_list":["post-31366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-chris-hayes","tag-donald-trump","tag-medium","tag-misinformation","tag-msnbc","tag-propaganda","tag-psyops","tag-russia","tag-russiagate","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31367,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31366\/revisions\/31367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}