Ronald Brownstein writes at The Atlantic about The Russification of the Republican Party: Just how far will Republicans go in following President Donald Trump’s embrace of Russia? An answer may be crystallizing as the GOP mobilizes its defense of the president against impeachment. Both congressional Republicans and conservative commentators are defending Trump from impeachment partly … Read more
On Monday, House Republicans issued an impeachment prebuttal ahead of the House Judiciary Committee hearing on impeachment scheduled for Wednesday. It is a shocking exercise in alternative reality disinformation and propaganda based upon a Russian-inspired conspiracy theory. These “Rootin’ for Putin” Republicans are all Kremlin propagandists now. As I have said before, the Party of … Read more
Update to Heads up! Sen. Lindsey ‘Stonewall’ Graham is ready to begin Stalinist show trials of the Russia investigators. Ambassador Fiona Hill, an expert on Russia and Vladimir Putin, told Devin Nunes to his face that his Ukraine conspiracy theory is ‘harmful’ to Ukraine and U.S. national security interests. She showed how Trump and Republicans function … Read more
I warned you about this last week. Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s review of the Russia investigation to drop soon. The conservative media entertainment complex propaganda machine — an ancillary to Russian ‘active measures’ propaganda — has been pressuring Senator Lindsey “Stonewall” Graham for the Stalinist show trials he promised earlier this year of government employees … Read more
I will reiterate what I said in an earlier post: Donald Trump is pushing the conspiracy theories of his pal Vladimir Putin. Democrats Say Trump’s Ukraine Conspiracy Theories Parallel Putin’s. During Friday’s questioning of Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Daniel Goldman, a top Democratic aide on the House Intelligence Committee, cited a … Read more