Silent Media, Open Secrets: Docs Declassified on Russia Collusion and Obama

Silence of the Lambs: The Media Ignores Declassified Documents on the Manufacturing of the Russian Conspiracy

Silence of the Lambs: The Media Ignores Declassified Documents on the Manufacturing of the Russian ConspiracyJonathan Turley – Consider this story: An outgoing president and his top officials are told that there is no evidence of Russian collusion or influence in the national election. The White House then moved to suppress the intelligence assessment and reverse the conclusions, while false claims were leaked to the press.

That is not just a major but a Pulitzer-level story, right?

Apparently not. The legacy media has largely ignored the declassified evidence and possible criminal referral on the Obama administration seeding the Russian collusion narrative just before the first Trump Administration. Continue reading

The Trump-Russia Story Took This Deadly Turn

Great American Daily – For months, the media has relentlessly pushed the story that Trump and his campaign have shady connections to Russia.

The left hung on every word, and believed the scandal would finish Trump for good.

But no one expected the story would take this deadly turn.

James T. Hodgkinson stalked Republican members of Congress at their practice for a charity baseball game.

He unleashed a hailstorm of 50 bullets and wounded five, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.

What motivated Hodgkinson to such madness?

He was a leftist who believed Trump was a Russian plant and needed to be held accountable.

His insane beliefs were fed by a daily diet of media outlets promoting this conspiracy theory.

Hodgkinson was a fan of the Rachel Maddow show.

Her program is a nightly hotbed of Trump-Russia conspiracy theories.

And while Maddow in no way bears personal responsibility for inciting the attack, her show provided a forum for unsubstantiated claims that the Trump campaign and the Russians were engaged in some sort of shady business. Continue reading