NYTimes Caught in Fake Story About Russia Paying 'Bounties' for Deaths of U.S. Soldiers
Remember before the election when the whole of the left-wing media complex claimed that the Russians were paying bounties for the deaths of U.S. soldiers? Now we finally learn that it was all just another lie meant to destroy Donald Trump.
As each month passes, we see more and more that the media’s claims against Trump are lies.
On June 27 of last year, the Times published a story that all the left-wing press went wild for. The paper claimed that Donald Trump’s “friends” in Russia were paying people to kill U.S. soldiers.
Oh, the media was scandalized by the story.
Indeed, it would have been a scandal… of it were true. Now that Trump is safely out of office, of course, the left is finally admitting that the story is fake news. It was always a lie. And our biased, corrupt “intelligence” community knew it.
.@PressSec on if Russia placed bounties on U.S. troops: "We wanted our intelligence community to look into those reports…they assessed with low to moderate confidence…that Russian intelligence officers sought to encourage Taliban attacks against U.S. and coalition personnel." pic.twitter.com/yASQAMBF2N
— CSPAN (@cspan) April 15, 2021
Journalist Glenn Greenwald — a left-winger — was disgusted by the admission that this fake story that was used as a weapon against Trump was all a lie. And he went on a long Twitter rant pinpointing some of those at fault for the fake news.
Remember this as you watch cable stars claiming to be "journalists" yet again treat a U.S. intelligence agency assertion, completely unaccompanied by evidence, as Truth.
This, apparently, is what they mean by "Real Reporting™": blind faith in CIA pronouncements.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
Remember: this discredited RUSSIA BOUNTY story wasn't just treated as Gospel by the CNN/NBC/NYT axis.
It was a main argument used in July by pro-war House Dems & their key ally, Liz Cheney, to try to block Trump's withdrawal plan from Afghanistan:https://t.co/iT5GB3WPc1
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
It's good that the Daily Beast noted the US intelligence assessment of "low to moderate confidence" in the Russia bounty story. But they were also one of the many, many outlets uncritically hyping and pushing it:https://t.co/qCwmgbnWLR
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
What's most amazing about this is that this "walking back" by US intelligence agencies is happening **on the same day** they just published a new evidence-free Russiagate claim, and it doesn't cause media stars to be even a tiny bit skeptical of it.https://t.co/zhoAhUenPr
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
Hilarious – The Washington Post's fact-checker @GlennKesslerWP gave Trump "Four Pinocchios" in part for saying he wasn't briefed on the Russia Bounty story, but also for dismissing it as unproven "Fake News":https://t.co/VYGQbwA8UH
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
It's been true for decades but got way worse under Trump: the primary attribute of US corporate journalists is that they worship the CIA and FBI and treat whatever these security agencies tell these journalists to say and think as True without any skepticism. Just look today!
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
"Right now, I want to hear their plan for Taliban and GRU agents in body bags" — @SenSasse, June 29, 2020, calling for the US military to kill Russians and Afghans based on the now-discredited story of RUSSIAN BOUNTIES.https://t.co/wUC4uCHbfp
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
Watch how pro-war House Democrats and Liz Cheney used this Russia bounty story to try to block Trump's withdrawal plan from Afghanistan. This is @sethmoulton in July. Listen to what he said:https://t.co/Fkzadf8ZHk
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
Do you see how often these media outlets disseminate utter falsehoods and fabrications? The reason they're obsessed with ranting about disinformation on Facebook & demanding censorship of others is so you don't realize how often they do this:pic.twitter.com/nrmifW6Ifq
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
It's so fucking infuriating. These are the outlets which demand the internet be censored in the name of stopping disinformation — so that the only ones who can speak are them — yet they are the ones who spread the most Fake News of anyone.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
Watch Maddow's show tonight (I know, it's hard) to see if she acknowledges that she went on air over and over and unquestioningly ranted to millions of people about a dangerous and inflammatory CIA story for which there was no evidence presented. She's done this repeatedly.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
Four years of propaganda from the CIA/Media/Democratic-Party axis condensed into 1 minute and 20 seconds from NBC News. This is what was done over and over: pic.twitter.com/FcNtf34F1K
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2021
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