Trump's ties or his campaign's ties to Russia. There were indeed valuable news stories broken on Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Rick Gates, and Michael Cohen. The criticism is the LARGE MAJORITY OF MEDIA--@nytimes @washingtonpost @CNN @msnbc @maddow @BuzzFeedNews
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@dailybeast@TheAtlantic@motherjones@TheYoungTurks taking a bunch of isolated Russia connections/stories (Flynn's call w/ Russian Ambassador was AFTER campaign; Michael Cohen's crime was related to hush money payoff; Manafort's crimes had nothing to do with the campaign, etc)Show this thread -
and engaging in a MASS SPECULATION/"The walls are closing in" game for 2+ years. I can't even count the amount of segments I've seen on cable news and pieces online and in print that projected crimes-unrelated-to-the-campaign into a grand, sinister Cold War reenactment
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So these media outlets ABSOLUTELY should have covered crimes related to Flynn, Cohen, Manafort and the rest....but covering those is VERY different from pushing a narrative storyline of the "walls are closing in" on Trump related to "Russian Collusion."
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Consider this for a moment: the
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There are countless other false stories still to this day up online that pushed Russian collusion. So spare me the false righteous indignation....I, nor others who've been proven right, are pushing Trump's "Fake News." I don't think journalists are "enemies of the people." But I
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do think most of the aforementioned outlets pushed a narrative that wasn't supported by EVIDENCE which was easy to see with the most basic amount of research. This sloppiness (which was intentional from the likes of
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A friend of mine told me to watch it this morning. I thought
@JoeNBC lost his damn mind carrying on like a damn fool! He and@Morning_Joe were knee deep in spreading the conspiracy theory just as much as the rest of MSM.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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That doesn’t make $$$$$$
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