{"id":44172,"date":"2020-02-21T13:58:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T21:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44172"},"modified":"2020-02-21T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T22:40:14","slug":"trump-fluffers-at-fox-news-say-the-media-and-democrats-are-the-agents-of-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44172","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Fluffers at Fox News Say the Media and Democrats are the &#8216;Agents of Russia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/trump-anger-cost-joseph-maguire-job-director-national-intelligence-n1140086\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">new report<\/a><\/strong> has revealed that Russia is, as expected, interfering in U.S. elections on behalf of Donald Trump. The report discloses that congressional intelligence committees were briefed on this threat within the past couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-friends-trump.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News Friends\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36370\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/3331471663534272\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Upon learning about this, Trump became irate. Not because Russia was trying to subvert America&#8217;s democracy again, but because Democrats in congress were among those who were told about it. Obviously Trump is very concerned that Russia&#8217;s efforts on his behalf be concealed from the people and their representatives. And as a consequence of this <em>&#8220;betrayal&#8221;<\/em> of unflinching loyalty to Dear Leader, Trump fired Joe Maguire, the Director of National Intelligence, and installed a sycophantic bootlicker with zero experience, Rick Grenell, in his place as acting director. Then, of course, Trump took to Twitter to lie about the whole thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another misinformation campaign is being launched by Democrats in Congress saying that Russia prefers me to any of the Do Nothing Democrat candidates who still have been unable to, after two weeks, count their votes in Iowa. Hoax number 7!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1230879049460764672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>First of all, this wasn&#8217;t launched by Democrats. It was Trump&#8217;s own DNI chief who compiled the intelligence and informed Congress, as he was required to do by law. But more troubling is the fact that Trump is, once again, absolving Russia of any responsibility for their blatant acts of cyber-espionage. Just as he did after the 2016 election, Trump is taking Vladimir Putin&#8217;s side and declaring that the charges of election interference are a hoax. And on top of that, he falsely accuses Democrats of manufacturing the charges for political gain.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, Fox News was right there to prop up Trump&#8217;s anti-American babbling. On Friday morning&#8217;s episode of Fox and Friends, the <em>&#8220;Curvy Couch&#8221;<\/em> potatoes went even further than Trump to malign Democrats and the press as <em>&#8220;Agents of Russia&#8221;<\/em> <em>(video below)<\/em>. <em>\u201cAlright let\u2019s be clear about what this really all is,&#8221;<\/em> co-host Pete Hegseth began. <em>&#8220;This is all an attempt to discredit President Trump. That\u2019s it. Delegitimize him all the way.&#8221;<\/em> Then he elaborated saying that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Every single Democrat that parrots what they\u2019re saying, they\u2019re working together, they are the agents of Russia. This is what Russia wants! They want to sow discord and misinformation and delegitimize our republic, destabilize it because they\u2019re not our friends and they know that when we\u2019re strong they\u2019re in a worse position \u2013 which they\u2019ve done for years before President Trump. This is what they do.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Democrats, the media, fell for it. And the keep falling for it because they hate Trump so much they\u2019re willing to parrot what the Kremlin is saying. They are the agents of Russia. Not Donald Trump, not this White House. It is the people that are spinning this.and continuing to drive this narrative.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of derp to unpack in those two paragraphs. To begin with, Hegseth is asserting that talking about the Russian campaign to help Trump win reelection is <em>&#8220;what Russia wants.&#8221;<\/em> That&#8217;s clearly the opposite of reality. Russia&#8217;s intentions were to covertly disrupt the election, while benefiting Trump&#8217;s candidacy. What Russia wants is for people to talk about Russia&#8217;s innocence and how corrupt and dishonest American intelligence agencies are. Which is exactly what Trump and Fox News are so helpfully doing.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth also contends that Democrats and the media <em>&#8220;fell for&#8221;<\/em> Russia&#8217;s plot to get them to uncover the Russian plot. How insidious! And idiotic. It goes without saying that Russia did not intend to get caught and have their spying be broadcast around the world. That notion is almost as stupid as Hegseth&#8217;s next comment that Trump haters &#8211; Democrats and the media &#8211; are parroting <em>&#8220;what the Kremlin is saying.&#8221;<\/em> That could only be true if the Kremlin were saying that Russia is meddling in U.S. elections and that their actions are illegal and intolerable. That&#8217;s what Democrats are saying, but it is plainly not what the Kremlin is saying.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, it is Trump and Fox News who are parroting the Kremlin. They are all saying that Russia isn&#8217;t doing anything wrong and any claim to the contrary is misinformation. Trump and his Reich-Wing confederates are unified in disputing what even his own intelligence agencies have proven to be true.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of this deceit is to pacify Trump&#8217;s ego. He thinks any validation of Russia&#8217;s attempts to steal the election, no matter how accurate, are personal attacks on him. Consequently, Trump will insult America&#8217;s intelligence professionals and he will take Putin&#8217;s side in denying the reality that Russia is aggressively trying to undermine U.S. democracy. And Fox News, as always, will obediently march along in lock-step with Trump&#8217;s reckless and treasonous lies.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fox &amp; Friends responding to the reports that Congress was briefed that Russia is interfering in the 2020 presidential campaign to help Trump by attacking the press as &quot;the agents of Russia.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UpHoINsA1g\">pic.twitter.com\/UpHoINsA1g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattGertz\/status\/1230841928750641154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report has revealed that Russia is, as expected, interfering in U.S. elections on behalf of Donald Trump. The report discloses that congressional intelligence committees were briefed on this threat within the past couple of weeks. Upon learning about this, Trump became irate. Not because Russia was trying to subvert America&#8217;s democracy again, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[152,1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[218,554,879,33,1130,1232,1211,1072],"class_list":["post-44172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-friends","tag-fox-news","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-richard-grennell","tag-russia","tag-vladimir-putin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-friends-trump.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-bus","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44182,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44182","url_meta":{"origin":44172,"position":0},"title":"PROOF: The Russian Plot to &#8216;Help&#8217; Bernie Sanders is Being Led By Donald Trump","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/22\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"This week there were a couple of bombshell reports that revealed how alarmed the intelligence community is about Russia's intentions to undermine this year's presidential election. 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