They explain it all pretty good in that video, I thought
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/09/06/the_media_lies_add_up_151572.html
the media all misled the American people
That about sums it up.
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MOre on that:
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY, THE FEDERALIST: All of it is striking and all of it is disconcerting that foreign governments would try to meddle in our U.S. elections.
What’s particularly problematic, though, is our Department of Justice and FBI are the least credible people to talk about this. Given the information operations they ran against the American people with their Russia collusion hoax, with their cover-up of the Hunter Biden laptop in which they lied about the situation and claimed that it was Russian disinformation and used that to censor American speech, even the first impeachment, the Department of Justice and FBI, there are consequences for those information ops they ran against the American people. And we do need protection from some of these foreign governments meddling in our elections, but we also need protection from our Department of Justice, FBI, and other intelligence agencies who are doing the same.
Mollie Hemingway: FBI, DOJ Least Credible People To Talk About An Influence Campaign Being Run Against The American People | Video | RealClearPolitics
And this:
MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER: That’s a great question. If you actually believe everything in the indictment, and I read every word of it just now, this is really small ball stuff, there’s no evidence that any Russian money changed anybody’s opinion. They say in the indictment that two of the influencers that were targeted did not know that it was Russian money. There’s no evidence that really there was any serious amount of media coverage to influence anything measurable in terms of opinion. All that being said, the main issue here is that we have this continued – this record of the Department of Justice running Russian disinformation hoaxes twice, not once. The first time claiming that the Russians favored Trump when we now know that they favored Clinton, and then the second time, the Hunter Biden laptop where we now know that the FBI ran a disinformation effort to make people think that it was about the Russians. So nobody should trust blindly the Department of Justice when it says anything about Russia.
MATT TAIBBI: Well, first of all, I mean, it’s just incredible. This story just won’t go away. It just reminds me of the Friday the 13th movies. No matter how many times they killed Jason, he keeps leaping out of Crystal Lake in each sequel. And this is the same thing. This Russiagate story will not die. There is a criminal case here. It remains to be seen exactly how much meat there is on the bone in the actual case.
But what Merrick Garland said in the press conference is not the same as what all those commentators you showed said. He said that what this content was supporting was consistent with Russia’s interest in amplifying U.S. domestic divisions. That’s not the same as saying that they were trying to promote Donald Trump.
And when you get down to the nitty gritty of the story, it’s very confusing, actually, as to what really happened and who was supporting whom.
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You’re referring to the Breaking Points video? I’m viewing that one right now.
Edited to add, from around 17:53 to around 18:47 of that video:
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