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Failed 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s decision to approve the dissemination of the Alfa-Bank smear was in fact a decision to gaslight all of America, according to legal scholar Jonathan Turley.
Speaking on “America Reports” this Monday, he explained that there’s no other way to interpret her endorsement of the Alfa-Bank smear given that she’d known full well that it lacked credibility.
“What’s really, really quite breathtaking in this case is that Hillary Clinton greenlighted the release of this claim, even though the campaign was told that there are serious problems with what they were alleging. But she greenlighted it and then told the public something that was pretty much untrue,” Turley said.
“She went on to Twitter and said, hey, Slate just ran a story that there is this connection through Alfa-Bank. She and Jake Sullivan, now the national security adviser, basically pretended to the public that this was all news to them and that they were breathless at this new disclosure when the campaign created this scandal. And it was totally unfounded.”
Turley referenced this tweet that Clinton posted on Nov. 1st, 2016, only days away from the 2020 presidential election:
Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. pic.twitter.com/8f8n9xMzUU
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 1, 2016
Notice how the tweet contains no “misinformation” or “disinformation” warning labels from Twitter.
“Now we know that after that, Hillary Clinton personally gave approval for this to be released. She gave, effectively, a greenlight to gaslight the American electorate,” Turley continued.
“And what’s really astonishing to this, is that Hillary Clinton has been around the world recently calling for censorship because of the dangers of disinformation and that she wants people who spread disinformation to be barred from sites. Well, this is arguably the most successful disinformation campaign in American history,” he added.
Indeed, though for some inexplicable reason, the so-called “experts” most concerned about the spread of “misinformation” and “disinformation” have had nothing to say about Clinton spreading disinformation.
Or about her hypocrisy:
For too long, tech platforms have amplified disinformation and extremism with no accountability. The EU is poised to do something about it.
I urge our transatlantic allies to push the Digital Services Act across the finish line and bolster global democracy before it’s too late.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 21, 2022
I spoke to the @guardian about the global reckoning we need on disinformation and the importance of a free press (along with the perils of persistent both-sidesism that we need to address). https://t.co/Oqfx8dkdEo
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 6, 2021
In fact, some of these “experts” are Clinton’s biggest fans.
Laugh out comedy, @wiczipedia. You literally campaigned for @HillaryClinton https://t.co/nyHIrKlTPt pic.twitter.com/MaXMxLyyEs
— Julio N. Rausseo (@JNReports) May 19, 2022
As previously reported, Clinton’s link to the Alfa Bank smear was confirmed last Friday by her 2016 campaign manager, Robby Mook, as he testified in the trial of Michael Sussmann, the disgraced former Clinton campaign attorney who’s been accused of lying to the FBI.
“Mr. Mook, before the break you had testified that there was a conversation in which you told Ms. Clinton about the proposed plan to provide the Alfa-Bank allegations to the media; is that correct?” Mook was asked during Friday’s hearing.
“Correct,” he replied.
“And what was her response?” he was then asked.
“All I remember is that she agreed with the decision,” Mook then admitted.
During separate hearings earlier last week, former FBI general counsel Jim Baker testified that Sussmann had forwarded the Alfa-Bank smear to his department on behalf of the Clinton campaign.
Sussmann is currently on trial for lying to Baker and claiming that he’d been sharing the Alfa-Bank smear as a “good citizen.” Yet financial records show he’d billed his meeting with Baker to the Clinton Campaign.
Regardless, “[t]he data Sussmann provided to Baker turned out to be spam, according to FBI agent Scott Hellman, who testified Tuesday that he reviewed the data and accompanying analysis shortly after it was handed over to the bureau,” as reported by National Review.
The Alfa-Bank smear “evidence” didn’t “suggest secret communication of any sort,” Hellman reportedly said.
The ‘secret’ communications with Russian bank ‘Alfa Bank’ was actually just marketimg spam. Here is one of the emails. pic.twitter.com/RNS8XmQmqb
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) March 23, 2017
As previously reported, Sussmann was a Perkins Coie lawyer who, while working for Clinton’s 2016 campaign, allegedly colluded with a “tech executive” at an “Internet company” to intercept and access Trump’s internet traffic data.
Sussmann then forwarded the data to the FBI (to Baker, specifically), claiming at the time that he was merely acting as a “good citizen” versus working for someone. Last September, a federal grand jury indicted him over this lie.
Will Clinton herself ever be indicted over the lies and “disinformation” she’s promoted? Turley thinks not.
“[T]here will likely not be consequences — let alone a ‘reckoning’ — for Hillary Clinton,” he predicted in a column published last week in The Hill.
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