How Team Trump used Fox News as a laundromat for unverified Russian information about top Democrats

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/11/politics/fox-news-ratcliffe-russia-intelligence/index.html

(CNN)While most of the nation was largely fixated over the past week on President Donald Trump's coronavirus diagnosis, the President and his allies in right-wing media have been engrossed with something else entirely.

Trump, with the help of outlets like Fox News, has been pushing a dishonest narrative in touting intelligence documents that his administration declassified last month on the eve of the first presidential debate. They claimed the information was a supposed smoking gun proving that Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration sought to frame Trump with a Russian collusion scandal.

But when examined closely the documents indicate no such thing. In fact, by the Trump administration's own admission, they are based on unverified Russian intelligence that could be totally bogus. Which is to say that the President and Fox News personalities such as Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson are hyping and disseminating information that originates from a foreign adversary to bludgeon top Democratic officials.

Trump and his allies have even gone so far as to demand or suggest that President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden should be charged with actual crimes -- again, resting much of their case on unverified Russian chatter and other cherry-picked material that the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency warned against releasing, as CNN previously reported.

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[LakeArenal]

1. Not called Fuk Youz for nuttin', honey.

[UTUSN]

2. K&R

[NCjack]

3. For cooperating with Putin, USG must cancel Fox' license to operate in USA.