{"id":38248,"date":"2020-02-24T15:45:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T20:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38248"},"modified":"2020-02-24T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T20:45:39","slug":"but-it-was-such-a-great-piece-of-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38248","title":{"rendered":"But It Was Such A Great Piece Of Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/02\/24\/report-officials-deny-russia-meddling-to-support-trump-the-intelligence-doesnt-say-that\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Breitbart<\/a> is reporting today that the the leak saying that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election is not true. Just as an aside, Russia has always interfered in our elections&#8211;they don&#8217;t care who wins&#8211;they just want to disrupt things and hopefully cause Americans to lose faith in the electoral process. Unfortunately they have been more successful at times than I would have liked.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheading\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>U.S. intelligence and national security officials have reportedly refuted the claim that Russia is interfering in the 2020 elections to help President Donald Trump\u2019s re-election, arguing in media reports published over the weekend that the United States does not have evidence to support the allegation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>House Democrat lawmakers pushing the allegation that the Kremlin is trying to help Trump \u201cmisheard or misinterpreted\u201d the intelligence community\u2019s formal assessment of ongoing U.S. election interference by the Russians, unnamed U.S. officials <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/23\/us\/politics\/russia-2020-election-interference.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\">suggested<\/a> to the <em>New York Times.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just another example of fake news put forth by the Democrats and the mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Citing sources familiar with the matter, the <em>Washington Post<\/em> recently <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/bernie-sanders-briefed-by-us-officials-that-russia-is-trying-to-help-his-presidential-campaign\/2020\/02\/21\/5ad396a6-54bd-11ea-929a-64efa7482a77_story.html?wpmk=1&amp;wpisrc=al_news__alert-national--alert-world--alert-politics&amp;utm_source=alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\">reported<\/a> that U.S. officials had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2020-election\/2020\/02\/21\/report-bernie-sanders-briefed-that-russia-trying-to-help-his-campaign\/\">warned<\/a> Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that Russia is trying to get him to the White House. Sanders is currently the front-runner for the Democrat presidential nomination.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) has described the assertion that Russia is trying to help Sanders as \u201c<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/484273-schiff-blasts-trump-for-making-false-claims-about-russia-intel-youve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\">false<\/a>,\u201d lambasting Trump for repeating it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Echoing the U.S. intelligence and national security officers who spoke to CNN and the <em>Times<\/em>, White House national security adviser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/white-house-official-denies-russia-meddling-to-support-trump\/\">Robert O\u2019Brien<\/a> and Vice President Mike Pence\u2019s chief of staff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2020\/02\/23\/marc-short\/\">Marc Short<\/a>\u00a0denied the ODNI official\u2019s claim that Russia is interfering in the 2020 presidential election to aid Trump\u2019s re-election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Nevertheless, Democrat lawmakers continue to claim that Russia is <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/20\/us\/politics\/russian-interference-trump-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\">interfering<\/a> in the U.S. elections on behalf of Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>President Trump has called for an investigation into a possible leak of classified intelligence unveiled during the briefing on election interference, accusing <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAdamSchiff\/status\/1230656216025706497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1230656216025706497&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalreview.com%2Fnews%2Fofficials-dispute-briefing-on-2020-russian-interference-favoring-trump-the-intelligence-doesnt-say-that%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\">Schiff<\/a>\u00a0of leaking the information.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What needs to happen here is that the person who leaked whatever information was leaked needs to be prosecuted for leaking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breitbart is reporting today that the the leak saying that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election is not true. Just as an aside, Russia has always interfered in our elections&#8211;they don&#8217;t care who wins&#8211;they just want to disrupt things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38248\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4379,7078,10348,849,10743,7318,1369,34,10589,2563,1134],"class_list":["post-38248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adam-schiff","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-breitbart","tag-election","tag-house-intelligence-committee","tag-mike-pence","tag-national-security","tag-new-york-times","tag-president-trump","tag-russian","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38249,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38248\/revisions\/38249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}