"The latest act in the comedy began Friday, just before voting opened in the Nevada Democratic caucus. The Washington Post ran a story — sourced, I’m not joking, to “people familiar with the matter” — explaining that Bernie Sanders had been briefed that “Russia is attempting to help his presidential campaign as part of an effort to interfere with the Democratic contest.”
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Sanders was quick to see through the gambit. “I’ll let you guess about one day before the Nevada caucus,” he said. “Why do you think it came out?” He pointed to a Post reporter: “It was The Washington Post? Good friends.” The Post, after all, has spent years dumping on Sanders, a fervent critic of the paper’s billionaire creep of an owner, Jeff Bezos.
|  | The Campaign Press: Members of the 10 Percent, Reporting for the One Per...Matt Taibbi Media companies run by the country’s richest people can’t help but project the mindset of their owners. |
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Intelligence officials and pundits have been screeching for years that patriotism demands voters reject the foreign agent Donald Trump and the Russian asset Bernie Sanders, and support a conventional establishment politician. Voters responded by moving toward Trump in national approval surveys and speeding Sanders to the top of the Democratic Party ticket. A more thorough disavowal of official propaganda would be difficult to imagine.
|  | The Walls Are Closing In on TrumpNunes’ ‘investigation’ has shown Washington at its worst. It’s been a pure exercise in protecting Trump, and a l... |
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|  | Opinion | Is This the Beginning of the End for Trump?Sentencing memos reveal damning evidence about collusion and campaign finance violations. |
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| | Opinion | The walls are closing in. And Trump’s lawyers know it.Put all the new reporting together, and the picture is unmistakable. |
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| | Two big Mueller filings are coming. Donald Trump is freaking out.He seems nervous. |
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| | Montage: Mainstream Media Hype About Russia Collusion"The Intercept" co-founder Glenn Greenwald tweeted this video of CNN, ABC, and MSNBC anchors and Democratic poli... |
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After this story died a violent death when Mueller’s probe ended with no new charges, conventional wisdom shifted to a new gospel: Russiagate was about foreign interference.
Russiagate from the start smelled funny, like bad food. Multiple developments worsened the odor. Stories kept coming up wrong. There were too many unnamed sources, too frequently contradicting one another and/or overstating facts. Every hoof print was a zebra’s. Outlets stopped worrying about relaying unconfirmed rumors, which is how terms like “blackmail,” “Trump,” “Russia” and even “Golden Showers” kept appearing in headlines, without proof there ever had been blackmail."
| | Taibbi: Something About This Russia Story StinksMatt Taibbi Nearly a decade and a half after the Iraq-WMD faceplant, the American press is again asked to co-sign a dubious ... |
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| | The bombshell report that Russia can blackmail Trump, explainedYochi Dreazen Why it matters that Vladimir Putin may have dirt on Donald Trump. |
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| | Analysis | As Mueller’s testimony concludes, Democrats revisit an old qu...What's the status of counterintelligence investigations into Trump and his team? |
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