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The combination of the NYT and crooked FBI agents got TFG elected. I canceled my subscription to the NYT back in 2016 due to the biased coverage. The NYT is not a real news organization and actually worked with the NYC office of the FBI to elect TFG
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https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/mcgonigal-russian-oligarch-trump-2016-election-20230129.html
Except the October Surprise was no surprise to one key player: Rudolph Giuliani, the ex-New York mayor and Trump insider who later became the 45th presidents attorney. Late that month, Giuliani told Fox News that the trailing Republican nominee had a surprise or two that youre going to hear about in the next few days. I mean, Im talking about some pretty big surprises.
Just two days later, then-FBI director James Comey revealed the bureau had reopened its probe into Clintons emails, based on the possible discovery of new communications on a laptop belonging to disgraced New York politico Anthony Weiner. The news jolted the campaign with a particularly strong boost from the New York Times, which devoted two-thirds of its front page to the story and the notion it was a major blow to Clintons prospects.
It was later reported that Comey was motivated to make the unusual announcement about the laptop because he feared leaks from the FBIs New York field office, which, according to Reuters, had a faction of investigators based in the office known to be hostile to Hillary Clinton. Indeed, Giuliani bragged immediately after that he had sources in the FBI, including current agents.
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......The government allegations against the former G-man Charles McGonigal (also accused of taking a large foreign payment while still on the FBI payroll) and the outsized American influence of the sanctioned-and-later-indicted Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska also tied to U.S. pols from Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell should make us also look again at what was really up with the FBI in 2016.
How coordinated was the effort in that New York field office to pump up the ultimate nothingburger about Clintons emails while poo-pooing the very real evidence of Russian interference on Trumps behalf, and who were the agents behind it? What was the role, if any, of McGonigal and his international web of intrigue? Was the now-tainted McGonigal a source who told the New York Times that fateful October that Russia was not trying to help Trump win the election before the U.S. intelligence community determined the exact opposite? If not McGonigal, just who was intentionally misleading Americas most influential news org, and why?......
Its not only that Americas so-called paper of record has never apologized for its over-the-top coverage of the Clinton emails or the deeply flawed story about the FBI Trump-Russia probe. Its that the Times has shown a stunning lack of curiosity about finding out what went wrong. In May 2017, or just seven months after Trumps election, then-Times executive editor Dean Baquet ended the position of public editor, an independent journalist who was embedded in the newsroom to cover controversies exactly like these.
BigmanPigman
(51,609 posts)I am planning on canceling my subscription. I only got it in 2016 since everyone said to support the non-biased media. Hah! What BS!
Duppers
(28,125 posts)I do have a subscription to the Washington Post.
moniss
(4,255 posts)well known that the NYT as an institution was very anti-Hillary. They had pretty much downplayed throughout the corruption of the Orange Ruski which was well known around NYC for many decades. The media complicity in general with turning a blind eye to his well known corruption is something for which they never have paid any real price. All so they could report it as a horse-race and get their shots in on HC. They are all gearing up to do it all over again. Breathless poll after breathless poll, moment by moment, substance be damned, image/impression is everything, let's go to the diner and ask some ignorant poorly informed people what they think. Ah yes the glory of our modern media on display as they give each other awards and talking head guest shots on shows while they remind you to buy their latest book.
Meowmee
(5,164 posts)My fathers subscription after his death a woman on the phone was so rude, and said we dont refund etc. She hung up on me. I called back, talked to a supervisor who was very apologetic, and who refunded me everything.
I have never subscribed to NYT or any to newspaper. I did subscribe to NG magazine online for a while.
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)They legitimized the bullshit and helped Trump get elected, for sure.
betsuni
(25,537 posts)agingdem
(7,850 posts)Last edited Mon Jan 30, 2023, 11:29 AM - Edit history (1)
tv personality, a conman with dubious ties, particularly since they had mocked him for decades..but the NYT (and Maggie Haberman) had help from MSNBC pundits Mika Brzezinski/Joe Scarborough/Andrea Mitchell/Chuck Todd...they loathed the Clintons, Hillary most of all..and because of their out-loud Hillary hate, they cleaned up their party buddy, a debauched crude narcissistic self-promoter, and "sold" him as a serious candidate..they ignored his vulgarities, laughed at his profane insults, and insisted he was the real deal, not the know-nothing loudmouth violence-spewing buffoon they knew him to be... and they did their damndest to amply the NYT incessant Hillary's emails drumbeat.. only after Trump turned on Joe/Mika, threatening to expose their relationship, did they reinvent themselves as never-Trump..Andrea and Chuck, however, chose access to Trump and his inner circle over anything resembling integrity ... the NYT (and Maggie Haberman) owe us the truth, an in-depth timeline detailing their obvious complicity in the Russia cover-up, and their intense and intended determination to destroy Hillary's momentum and propel Trump into the presidency ...
Scrivener7
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(24,576 posts)RandiFan1290
(6,237 posts)after all of the help they gave Bush with 2000 and the Iraq invasion.