The same biased reporters who pushed two-and-a-half years of Russian conspiracy theories aren’t done with their vendetta against President Trump. They will stop at nothing until he is removed from office.
These aren’t journalists, they’re political operatives.
Now, they’re even trying to criminalize the president’s attempt to get to the bottom of the Russian collusion hoax.
The New York Times ran a front-page story on Monday breathlessly reporting “another instance of the president using American diplomacy for potential personal gain” — which turned out to be nothing but cooperation between the Department of Justice and the Australian government related to a long-standing DOJ investigation.
The hypocrisy is laughable. The story is a shining example of how journalists contort stories in order to hew to the Democrats’ party line.
As everyone actually following the story knows, the origins of the collusion stories in 2016 are downright suspicious. They read like a movie script, complete with spy games, shady characters, and government intelligence operatives from around the world.
Alexander Downer, an Australian politician, played a major role in getting the Trump-Russia collusion narrative going. Trump didn’t make up these suspicions, they came from the sworn testimony of people at the center of the Russia investigation.
The question is not whether Downer was involved, but why.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller made a point to ignore Downer’s involvement with anti-Trump “dossier” author and British spy Christopher Steele, even though Mueller’s mandate was to report on foreign interference in our elections. That’s why Attorney General William Barr initiated an investigation to get to the bottom of what happened, fulfilling a promise he made to Congress during his confirmation hearing.
Every responsible and informed person should support the DOJ investigation. Some things just don’t add up in the official narrative of Russian interference, and the public deserves to know the truth. Yet journalists write off every question and allegation involving the origin of the baseless collusion allegations as “counternarrative marbled with conspiracy,” designed by Trump to advance his own interests.
You’d have to have spent the past three years living under a rock to believe there are no legitimate questions to be asked about the events leading up to the Mueller probe.
While the biased reporters at the New York Times may think they’ve dropped a bombshell with their latest reporting, they haven’t actually written anything new. Trump himself very publicly tasked Barr with investigating the role of the Australian, Italian, British, and Ukrainian governments in the origins of the collusion allegations months ago. That investigation would obviously involve, if not require, cooperating with those governments.
The media largely ignored or dismissed Barr’s investigative assignment from Trump because it didn’t fit their narrative. That doesn’t mean it was some nefarious secret, though.
Now that Democrats have concocted the Ukraine “scandal,” their media allies are retooling the story of Barr’s investigation and presenting it as evidence of a corrupt bargain between the president and a foreign leader. The Australia story’s clear purpose is to substantiate the baseless accusations that Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky involved a quid pro quo deal.
The media enthusiasm for the non-existent quid pro quo is matched only by their determination to ignore the likelihood that there was a very real one involving the Democratic front-runner. Joe Biden’s son Hunter was taking money from a Ukrainian energy company while his vice president dad was influencing Obama administration policy on Ukraine.
Biden vehemently denies having any knowledge of his son’s business dealings, but there are photos of the two Bidens golfing with company executives just months after Hunter was named to the board.
We’re supposed to believe Hunter Biden got on the board on his own merits, and not because his dad was vice president? The media hardly spent any time investigating that. Instead, they’re going down another rabbit hole just to smear Trump.
Democrats have one goal: to take down Trump. Unfortunately, they can rely on compliant media reporters and editors to put an anti-Trump spin on any story that seems like it might help do it.
Jenna Ellis Rives (@JennaEllisRives) is a member of the Trump 2020 Advisory Board. She is a constitutional law attorney, radio host, and the author of The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution.
