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Information became distorted and misleading and manipulated, like this one from january 17th. this is a story that started it all. it said ukrainian government officials tried to help hillary clinton and undermine trump. this story was limited in scope. it described what yovanovitch called isolated incidents by individuals in ukraine. it did not allege a top down campaign of ukrainian meddling because there wasnt any. hannity leaned on this story for months and months even after the co-author sa...

Articles. >> in claiming interference, kennedy is citing articles from 2016 about ukrainian politicians who openly opposed trumps candidacy. politico is now reporting that the republican-controlled senate intelligence committee thoroughly investigated that theory and found no evidence that ukraine waged a top-down campaign to help trump win in 2016. >> first of all, senator john kennedy is a great discredit to his name. >> we can agree on that one. >> secondly, hes not being dup duped. he knows ...

Need to destroy her. >> and amanda, there is a difference between this crazy ukrainian conspiracy theory that ukraine hacked crowdstrike blah, blah or whatever and this thing that a lot of republicans hang their hats on which is ukrainian officials, some officials said nice things about hillary clinton and said bad things about donald trump during the 2016 election. not that it was a top-down campaign. it was all out in the open. but that is true. in fact, here is dr. fiona hill pointing that ou...

He couldnt miss in his family. but he also skipped a big event for democrats in california last weekend. whats the message he is sending? is he perhaps taking his front-runner status for granted? >> its certainly a strategy to run what ive been calling an over-the-top campaign. hes running a campaign as it if hes already in office. its to be determined whether or not deformic voters will allow that type of a top-down campaign to work. usually progressives particularly want people to fight for th...

Recent political experience we have as a country with this subject. the ross perot 1992 election thing, this is one of those stories where it didnt happen all that long ago. the truth about it, the facts about it are totally knowable and out in the open but we have invented a giant national lie that we tell ourselves about what happened in that race. and the lie really is the common wisdom. the lie about that race is much more commonly asserted than what is true about that race. and it makes me ...

And instantly everybody just gets it wrong in terms of explaining what that would mean. explaining the historical precedent for what that would mean. here, for example, is "the new york times" today. mr. trump is positioning himself to be a ross perot-like spoiler in the general election. that was "the new york times" today. "new york times" two weeks ago thinking ahead about this prospect made the same mistake. quote, any top-down campaign by republicans to marginalize mr. trump might encourage...

Have as a country with this subject. the ross perot 1992 election thing, this is one of those stories where it didnt happen all that long ago. the truth about it, the facts about it are totally knowable and out in the open, but we have invented a giant national lie that we tell ourselves about what happened in that race. and the lie really is the common wisdom. the lie about that race is much more commonly asserted than what is true about that race. and it makes me crazy. donald trump today is t...