The headline on the front page of The New York Post captured the story about The Washington Post exactly:
‘BAD NEWS’
WaPo’s own media critic calls out WaPo, Buzzfeed: Back up Steele dossier reporting or retract it Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple wrote Monday that the indictment of Igor Danchenko is “bad news” for several media outlets.
The essence?
From the beginning of the Trump administration, The Washington Post – not to mention other media outlets with names like The New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC – was running stories about supposed “sources” deep inside Russia that had all sorts of info that Donald Trump was an ally of Russia if not a Russian agent himself.
Now, finally, the work of Special Counsel John Durham is bringing indictments. And, as The Washington Post’s own media critic Erik Wemple now acknowledges, the truth of the newest indictment has shredded the credibility of his own paper and all those other media outlets who relentlessly pushed the fraud of Trump-Russia collusion.
Writes Wemple of the indictment:
“It charges Igor Danchenko, the dossier’s primary intelligence collector, with making false statements to the FBI about his interactions with sources consulted for the dossier. Danchenko isn’t a deep-cover type; he’s a Russian national living in the United States and a former Brookings Institution analyst who “focused on analyzing business and political risks in Russia,” as the New York Times put it.”
He ends by saying this of his paper’s false stories: “A reckoning is years overdue.”
In other words, as these indictments roll out, it is clearer and clearer that the entire Trump-Russia collusion story was phony from start to finish. It was propagated by Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton loyalists – and funded as well. And hating Trump, the media swallowed the lies hook, line and sinker, leaving their credibility trashed.
Now comes this headline from Fox News:
THE BIDEN CONNECTION
President’s inner circle linked to Clinton campaign’s dirty tricks against Trump, sources tell Fox News
The Fox story says:
“Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s White House national security adviser, is the “foreign policy advisor” referred to in the indictment of former Hillary Clinton presidential campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, according to two well-placed sources.”
Stay tuned on that one. Will The Washington Post launch an investigation of Jake Sullivan? Don’t bet the ranch.
What we have here is a deadly serious, shocking realization that not only is this a major league political scandal that makes Watergate look like chump change. What we have here, as Erik Wemple is admitting, is that The Washington Post and other media, obsessed with Trump Derangement Syndrome, spent years propagating the false story – the lie – that there was Trump-Russia collusion. This is every bit a media scandal as it is a political scandal.
Now, as these Durham indictments reveal in detail, the truth is coming out. And in coming out it is a serious black eye for the mainstream media outlets like The Washington Post that relentlessly pushed the real Big Lie.
Question?
The Washington Post (and The New York Times) won Pulitzer Prizes for their reporting that insisted the Trump-Russia collusion fairytale was real.
Will they give them back?
In a letter to the Pulitzer Prize board, former President Trump has called for the board to withdraw the awards.
They should if they want to hold on to a shred of credibility. But don’t bet the ranch – the media supports the media.
The good news? There is one person vindicated in all of this is.
That would be Donald Trump.
And millions of Americans know it – and feel vindicated in their Trump support.
Just ask Virginia.
