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2021-04-17 Home Front: Politix
Liz Cheney Was A Primary Culprit Of Spreading Fake News On Russian Bounties To Undermine Trump
[Federalist] U.S. intelligence agencies debunked on Thursday what was treated as blockbuster election-year reporting last summer of an anonymously sourced story in The New York Times claiming the Kremlin placed bounties on American troops in Afghanistan.
Liz is getting primaried
President Donald Trump, went the tale, deliberately downplayed the aggression to appease Russia and accelerate the timeline to withdraw U.S. forces. Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, currently number three in House leadership, was a primary purveyor of the fake news.

"The United States intelligence community assesses with low to moderate confidence that Russian intelligence officers sought to encourage Taliban attacks on U.S. and coalition personnel in Afghanistan in 2019 and perhaps earlier," a senior administration official said, according to the readout of a call with reporters in the Daily Beast.

Officials said their conclusion of "low to moderate confidence" in the story, which effectively means it’s at best unproven and potentially false, came "in part because it relies on detainee reporting," an often unreliable source of intelligence on which to base such explosive claims.

As the story picked up traction in the corporate press, however, Cheney appeared to sense a prime opportunity to capitalize on what was treated as a scandal, to not only undermine Trump, but also justify a prolonged military presence in the region while the administration took steps to pull out. Neither to Cheney, nor legacy media, appeared to hesitate due to the claims’ poor sourcing.

The viral public post below generated a series of news stories in major publications including Axios and The Hill, and was cited in dozens of others while catching airtime on national networks as an admonishment to the president of her own party.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-17 00:37|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Mendacious cvnt

The NeverTrumpers have done as much or even more harm to this country than their new mates on the Woke side
Posted by Vortigern Grundy6996 2021-04-17 08:57||   2021-04-17 08:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Next time anybody thinks of writing a check to the RNC, think of this harridan (and GOP support for her).
Posted by Clem 2021-04-17 12:23||   2021-04-17 12:23|| Front Page Top

#3 I’ve been responding to republican text solicitations for $ support with admonitions to pound sand for their utter lack of spine as the cou try was stolen out from under us. Cheney, Romney, Murkowski, Sasse, even Pence, can all blow off. I’ll celebrate when they reach room temperature.
Posted by Rob06  2021-04-17 13:47||   2021-04-17 13:47|| Front Page Top

#4 It’s easy enough to send donations directly to pro-Trump politicians — both those already in office and fighting against Democrat machinations and those running to primary NeverTrumpers like the honourable Rep. Cheney — in order to reshape both the Republican Party and the makeup of Congress to our taste. Damning them all equally guarantees the current situation will only get worse.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-17 14:54||   2021-04-17 14:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Is anybody compiling a list of Trump-worthy candidates? I gave to Devin Nunes and Ted Cruz in 2020, for example.
Posted by Bobby 2021-04-17 17:16||   2021-04-17 17:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Is anybody compiling a list of Trump-worthy candidates?

Nobody perfect, Bobby, but search the Rantburg archives for Rep. Dan Crenshaw and friends. A number of Republican governors look worthy, all three Republican candidates for senator from Ohio, that sweet former Democrat who became a strong Republican Trump supporter who is running for governor of Georgia, Hershel Walker, the former Democrat mayor who became a Trump Republican — I think he is Latino, my congressman (Warren Davidson, Ohio district 8), who is nothing like his predecessor John Boehner... So many possibilities, most of which I’m not aware of. :-)
Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-17 20:07||   2021-04-17 20:07|| Front Page Top

#7 My pick is TX Gov. Abbot
Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-17 22:17||   2021-04-17 22:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Along with spreading chlamydia at random truck stops throughout DC and the midwest.

Now think about who the hell is keeping this treason whore in power?
Posted by Woodrow 2021-04-17 22:34||   2021-04-17 22:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh no no no.
Look closely at Ohio candidates for Senate.
Mandel May be the one Trump endorse. Others are anti Trump.
Posted by Xyz 2021-04-17 23:26||   2021-04-17 23:26|| Front Page Top

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