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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ignoring-fiona-hills-warnings-trump-echoes-russian-propaganda?fbclid=IwAR2LQ9UjPgJ02RHOp0yzT3mQvkK26A9vJAzmgjeNoykSLIY7-MRzikwfl30Ignoring Fiona Hills warnings, Trump echoes Russian propaganda
11/22/19 12:58 PMUpdated 11/22/19 02:26 PM
By Steve Benen
Yesterday, Dr. Fiona Hill, the former top Russia expert on the White House National Security Council, implored Republicans to stop echoing propaganda created by the Kremlin to undermine the United States and help Moscow. In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interest, she testified.
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TRUMP: You know, its very interesting. They have the server, right, from the DNC, Democratic National Committee, you know.
KILMEADE: Who has the server?
TRUMP: The FBI went in and they told them, get out of here, youre not getting were not giving it to you. They gave the server to Crowdstrike, or whatever its called, which is a country which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian. And I still want to see that server. You know, the FBI has never gotten that server. Thats a big part of this whole thing. Why did they give it to a Ukrainian company? Why?
DOOCY: Are you sure they did that? Are you sure they gave it to Ukraine?
TRUMP: Well, thats what the word is. Thats what I asked actually in my phone call, as you know.
KILMEADE: Who has the server?
TRUMP: The FBI went in and they told them, get out of here, youre not getting were not giving it to you. They gave the server to Crowdstrike, or whatever its called, which is a country which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian. And I still want to see that server. You know, the FBI has never gotten that server. Thats a big part of this whole thing. Why did they give it to a Ukrainian company? Why?
DOOCY: Are you sure they did that? Are you sure they gave it to Ukraine?
TRUMP: Well, thats what the word is. Thats what I asked actually in my phone call, as you know.
To the extent that reality still has any meaning, we already know that everything the president said about this conspiracy theory is both wrong and crackpot nonsense. There is no ambiguity: the claim Trump keeps peddling, publicly and to national audiences, is just crazy. Even White House officials have urged the president not to believe it. He doesnt care.
But its not just factually incorrect. In the shadow of the impeachment inquiry, its also an example of Trump asking people to believe a discredited claim, that is, in Fiona Hills words, being perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services.
Or put another way, the American president is helping advance Kremlin propaganda intended to hurt the United States.
Indeed, Trump wouldnt let it go. Dont forget, Ukraine hated me, he added this morning. They were after me in the election. They wanted Hillary Clinton to win.
I dont honestly expect the president to have watched Fiona Hills testimony, and he obviously wouldnt read a transcript if it were handed to him. But theres probably room for a public conversation about why Trump seems so eager to stick to the Russian script Hill urged officials to avoid.
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Ignoring Fiona Hill's warnings, Trump echoes Russian propaganda (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2019
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rzemanfl
(29,568 posts)1. I've been reading here that Fiona Hill's book about Putin is hard to get.
A cable channel could get a lot of viewers by having her read it in prime time as a series of one hour programs.