John Kennedy repeats Ukraine conspiracy theory about DNC server Jacob Knutson Sen. President Trump has promoted a false conspiracy theory involving Democrats, an obscure security firm and the 2016 election. The New Yorker found that the reporting of the conspiracy in the right-wing media was initiated by Peter Schweizer, a former Breitbart News.When the House of Representatives draws up articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, the list might not include one of his most dangerous abuses of power: the president’s promotion of fraudulent conspiracy theories giving White House credence to crackpot claims once confined to fringe websites.How a Fringe Theory About Ukraine Took Root in the White House. Released notes released in 2019, upon hearing news of hack of Democratic National Committee or DNC server in 2016, chairman Pau Manafort stated that Ukraine was involved rather than Russia.
His frequent embrace of convoluted conspiracy theories means White House policy can be based on bizarre fairy tales – and be wide open to penetration by Russian and other intelligence agencies.It doesn’t get much more dangerous than that.I have reported for decades from troubled countries such as Pakistan and Egypt, where publics rely on conspiracy theories to make sense of the world because they have no trusted sources of information.Often those theories are fed by their intelligence services, or, in the internet age, they just appear and go viral. “This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves,” said former top national security official Fiona Hill, at impeachment hearings.» READ MORE: Absolutely, this harms Ukraine: Prominent NGO official in Kiev talks of Trump I Trudy RubinBut Trump won’t let it go. But less attention has been paid to Trump’s other demand: that Zelensky pursue the fake claim that Ukraine, not Russia, hacked the 2016 election.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo backs Trump's call for Ukraine to investigate a debunked theory that it has the DNC server and that it was hacked by Ukraine, not Russia.That conspiracy theory has been debunked, repeatedly, including by all U.S. In the impeachment case, the spotlight has focused on Trump’s arm-twisting of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden before receiving desperately needed U.S.
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Election,” said the Russian president. “Thank God no one is accusing us anymore of interfering in the U.S. You need only to read Vladimir Putin’s response to the Ukraine investigation to understand who benefits from Trump’s farce. Among the reams of documentation, a 29-page criminal indictment against 12 Russian conspirators for hacking the 2016 election that details one chapter of Russian meddling.Moreover, as Hill stated so clearly, the blame-Ukraine narrative is promoted by Russian intelligence (and very possibly planted by it in the fevered world of far-right social media). Intelligence community, along with bipartisan reports from both House and Senate Intelligence Committees all confirm that Russia did the hacking.
Whether or not it amounts to an impeachable offense. Having a conspiracy theorist in the White House who blurs the distinction between fiction and fact is a threat to our country, and a boon to our enemies. We are still the world’s most powerful nation. John Kennedy (R., La.), an Oxford-educated lawyer, actually said on Fox News in late November that the perpetrator of the 2016 hack “could be Ukraine.” Perhaps unable to look in his mirror while shaving, he quickly rescinded that claim, only to repeat it days later.And Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, no doubt considering his hopes for a future senatorial seat, has suggested the debunked Ukraine conspiracy theory was worth looking into.In other words, to prevent being primaried, the GOP political establishment supports Trump’s conspiracy theories run wild.What makes this so scary is that these politicians don’t see the risk of mainstreaming conspiracy delusions as the basis for White House policy.This is the United States, not Pakistan or Egypt. To take only one case, Sen. Well, they should figure it out among themselves.”» READ MORE: The message from Kiev: Trump not Biden is promoting corruption I Trudy RubinAnd yet, Trump shamelessly and mindlessly pursues this mirage, dispatching his consigliere Rudy Giuliani abroad yet again to pursue debunked Ukrainian conspiracy tales.Equally disturbing, GOP legislators, who must know this farce is groundless, support the White House.
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