June 17 2016 Fox news reports:
First we were told that a Russian hacker had broken into the Democratic National Committee’s computers and gotten hold of its oppo file on Donald Trump.
Now someone who goes by 'Guccifer 2.0,' a nod to the shadowy Romanian hacker, is claiming credit for putting the Trump file out there. Gawker and the Smoking Gun both published the report yesterday.
But what I find so amusing is that the opposition research file is hardly filled with secret stuff, the product of private eyes digging up dirt or hired-gun sleuths poring over documents. This supposed treasure trove, submitted in December, consists mainly of published articles and televised segments.
In other words, it’s all out there. You can Google it. Any reasonably sentient media consumer would know this stuff. It’s what we in the journalism racket call a clip job.
To wit:
“Trump is Loyal only to Himself.”
“Trump is a Liar.”
“Trump Proposed Banning All Muslims.”
"Trump’s Business Have Gone into Bankruptcy Several Times.”
“He Has Devalued and Demeaned Women Repeatedly Throughout His Career.”
“Out of Touch/Hand-Outs for the Wealthy at the Expense of the Middle Class.”
Wow.
And the sources? Wall Street Journal, AP, Politico, Washington Post, Forbes, etc.
Trump, for his part, isn’t buying the DNC explanation that this is the work of some nefarious outside hacker. “Much of it is false and/or entirely inaccurate,” he says in a statement. “We believe it was the DNC that did the ‘hacking’ as a way to distract from the many issues facing their deeply flawed candidate and failed party leader. Too bad the DNC doesn’t hack Crooked Hillary’s 33,000 missing emails.”
Now that sounds far-fetched as well. Not only is there nothing new here, but no one can absorb 200 pages at once. Why not dribble out the attacks, package them as talking points, put them in attack ads, rather than create a bogus hacking story and dump it all out there? Or dress it up with some narrative and release it as a report?
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Please note above that on June 17,2016 Fox news was suggesting to the viewer's minds that the hacking story is Bogus (a hoax). At the same time Trump is saying, "We believe it was the DNC that did the 'hacking' as a way to distract from the many issues facing their deeply flawed candidate and failed party leader". Trump also mentions Clinton's emails so as to change the focus of the topic. What's important to note here is that the messaging is inferring that the suggestion that Russia hacked the DNC is a Hoax invented by the Democrats, and that mainstream news outlets are peddling fake news to help further the "Democrat's hoax".
On the same day, June 17,2016, Putin says he does not have a preference for who wins U.S. election, though he welcomes Trump's pledge to restore U.S.-Russia ties. Putin says, "We never interfere in other countries’ internal politics, especially the U.S." We can see that this presents a contradiction in reasoning since "We never" is contradicted by "especially the U.S."... And he welcomes Trump's "pledge" to restore U.S.- Russian ties while also having no preference.
June or July 2016, according to an indictment, Stone informs the Trump campaign about possible Wikileaks release of damaging Clinton documents.
From July 24, 2016. Below is an interview with Jake Tapper. Please keep in mind when you read it, that Don junior is already aware that Russia is trying to help Trump win when he gives this interview, (because he has already had the meeting at Trump Tower and has already read the email stating: This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump, June 3,2016).
JAKE TAPPER: So, I don't know if you were hearing earlier, but Robby Mook, the campaign manager for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — I asked him about the DNC leak. And he suggested that experts are saying that Russians were behind both the leak — the hacking of the DNC emails and their release. He seemed to be suggesting that this is part of a plot to help Donald Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton. Your response?
TRUMP JR.: Well, it just goes to show you their exact moral compass. I mean, they will say anything to be able to win this. I mean, this is time and time again, lie after lie. You notice he won't say, well, I say this. We hear experts. You know, here's (INAUDIBLE) at home once said that this is what's happening with the Russians. It's disgusting. It's so phony. I watched him bumble through the interview, I was able to hear it on audio a little bit (Did he hear it or watch it?). I mean, I can't think of bigger lies, but that exactly goes to show you what the DNC and what the Clinton camp will do. They will lie and do anything to win.
Please note that in the first of the following tweets the "fake news" must be referring to help from Russia to help Trump win. It therefore cannot be referring to a fake story about "collusion", since that would have nothing to do with an excuse for why Hillary lost. However the second tweet describes a different meaning for "hoax" which contradicts the first one.
Feb. 16, 2017 Trump tweet:
The Democrats had to come up with a story as to why they lost the election, and so badly (306), so they made up a story - RUSSIA. Fake news!
Feb. 18, 2018 Trump tweet:
I never said Russia did not meddle in the election, I said “it may be Russia, or China or another country or group, or it may be a 400 pound genius sitting in bed and playing with his computer.” The Russian “hoax” was that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia - it never did!
So in summation, we can clearly see in hindsight that Trump first claimed, that the DNC was not hacked by Russia, but by the DNC itself. We then see from an indictment that Trump was allegedly being told by Roger Stone that WikiLeaks will be releasing bad things about Hillary. And we know Trump loved the releases by Wikileaks even though he claimed the DNC hacked it's own self to somehow hurt him. We then see Don junior saying that the Hillary campaign is making up lies about the Russians trying to hurt Hillary and help Trump win even though he knows at the time that Russia is doing exactly that according to the emails that were released by the free press.
We also see Trump after the election claiming that no one knows who hacked the DNC while simultaneously claiming that the suspicion that Russia was trying to help him win was a fake story made up by the Democrats as an excuse for losing, even though the story began spreading six months before the election was lost (which by the way he also claims the Democrats thought they were going to win). And finally we see Trump conveniently changing the meaning of "hoax" claiming that when he said "Russian hoax", he was referring to "colluding" with Russia, not Russian meddling to help him win, which is contradicted by his earlier statement that it was a fake story (Hoax) that Russia was trying to help him win.
The so called "witch hunt" Mueller investigation that was given birth out of a "hoax" that Russia was helping Trump win and then morphed into the suspicion of "collusion", was started by Rosenstein when he called for the special counsel, not by the Democrats. There were two additional investigations conducted by the house and the senate both controlled by the Republicans. All three concluded that Russia was indeed trying to hurt Hillary and Help Trump win. Trump is still currently contradicting his self when he insists there was never any collusion, while also claiming that Russia never interfered in the first place, wherefore collusion couldn't even be possible to begin with.
