Secrets and Lies
Secret and Lies
Before the election, during one of the debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Hillary’s leaked emails became the topic, which had been kept on an unprotected, private server in her basement. Wikileaks was the culprit responsible for this massive leak. In response, the media basically shrugged, even though there were mountains of delectably, incriminating morsels about Hillary and her compadres at the DNC within those leaks. It was precisely at this moment that Donald Trump made the greatest mistake of his life and told an offhand joke about the Russians needing to hack even more of her emails. But for the press and the democrats, who were essentially one and the same, they found an alibi for Hillary, and a weapon to be used against Trump. Apparently, Trump’s joke wasn’t really a joke, it was a Freudian slip—and that’s all they needed to concoct the story of a lifetime.
Now, it wasn’t Donald Trump that made the Russians the issue. The Clinton campaign had already attempted to scapegoat the Russians as a way of explaining Hillary’s email troubles. The Russians, of course, denied this, as did Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks. Assange made it clear that the leak came from an inside source—probably Seth Rich—the young Bernie Sanders supporter who was rightly angry at the DNC for rigging the election, making it impossible for Sanders to become the democratic nominee. Rich was shot in the back, a few blocks from his home, with his wallet still in his pocket. The press at large looked no further than the “botched” robbery explanation, even though there was no evidence of an attempted robbery. You can be sure that if Seth Rich was in the process of blowing the whistle on Donald Trump and the Republicans, the media would have instantly seen evidence everywhere, connecting Rich’s death to Trump. But connections to Hillary and the DNC were the wrong connections, therefore they dismissed the murder as much ado about nothing. From that point forward, the real story for the media became Trump’s alleged ties to Putin and Russia. Not the damning Wikileaks regarding Hillary’s emails, or the intentional destruction of evidence when Hillary destroyed her phones and computers, which was a felony.
During the remainder of the election cycle, the Putin/Trump connection was only occasionally referenced because Hillary was destined to become the first woman president. When she lost—and lost big, electorally speaking—the press and the DNC needed a reason that went beyond her lack of charisma, her sense of entitlement, her lack of ideas, her shady background, and her support of Barack Obama’s many failed policies. The fact that she was the first mainstream presidential candidate to be under investigation by the FBI, also helped to sink her ambitions.
Under the leadership of James Comey the FBI reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton three days before the election, it was the final nail in her political coffin. At that moment, Comey became a pariah amongst democrats, having declared that Hillary’s handling of the emails was a serious breach of classified information, but not necessarily criminal. To add fuel to the fire, Comey’s boss, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, had met privately with Bill Clinton, while his wife was under investigation by the FBI. This was deemed unusual by the press, but probably explainable by whatever explanation was offered, no matter how unlikely. It was also a serious breach of legal conduct. But, again, after a bit of hand wringing, the media at large determined that it was probably just a meeting between old pals, passing family photos around on an airport tarmac, in an empty plane, in the dead of summer. “Don’t we all do this, now and again?” the press asked rhetorically. And, as the potential scandals mounted, the press ran interference for the democrats, doing as little as possible, while maintaining the heat on president Trump.
The murder of Seth Rich, the email scandal and destruction of evidence by Hillary Clinton and staffers, the illegal meeting between Obama’s appointed Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton, the rigging of the election by the DNC on behalf of Hillary—all, were causally examined—and then determined to be of no importance by the mainstream media. So deep does the bias run that news organizations like CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, and The Washington Post are currently prosecuting the case against president Trump, as one might expect a district attorney to do, not members of the 4th estate. This is only my opinion, mind you, based on having observed and written about these events from before the beginning. If yesterday’s villain was James Comey, he is resurrected as today’s hero. Because they know their audience is only hearing one side of the story, like a trial with only a prosecutor and no defense. Likewise, yesterday’s lies can be recycled as today’s truths, since only the insiders know the real truth.
In a post modern world, what is truth anyway? Whatever you want to believe. More reasonably, whatever they want you to believe.
Mark Magula
Before the election, during one of the debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Hillary’s leaked emails became the topic, which had been kept on an unprotected, private server in her basement. Wikileaks was the culprit responsible for this massive leak. In response, the media basically shrugged, even though there were mountains of delectably, incriminating morsels about Hillary and her compadres at the DNC within those leaks. It was precisely at this moment that Donald Trump made the greatest mistake of his life and told an offhand joke about the Russians needing to hack even more of her emails. But for the press and the democrats, who were essentially one and the same, they found an alibi for Hillary, and a weapon to be used against Trump. Apparently, Trump’s joke wasn’t really a joke, it was a Freudian slip—and that’s all they needed to concoct the story of a lifetime.
Now, it wasn’t Donald Trump that made the Russians the issue. The Clinton campaign had already attempted to scapegoat the Russians as a way of explaining Hillary’s email troubles. The Russians, of course, denied this, as did Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks. Assange made it clear that the leak came from an inside source—probably Seth Rich—the young Bernie Sanders supporter who was rightly angry at the DNC for rigging the election, making it impossible for Sanders to become the democratic nominee. Rich was shot in the back, a few blocks from his home, with his wallet still in his pocket. The press at large looked no further than the “botched” robbery explanation, even though there was no evidence of an attempted robbery. You can be sure that if Seth Rich was in the process of blowing the whistle on Donald Trump and the Republicans, the media would have instantly seen evidence everywhere, connecting Rich’s death to Trump. But connections to Hillary and the DNC were the wrong connections, therefore they dismissed the murder as much ado about nothing. From that point forward, the real story for the media became Trump’s alleged ties to Putin and Russia. Not the damning Wikileaks regarding Hillary’s emails, or the intentional destruction of evidence when Hillary destroyed her phones and computers, which was a felony.
During the remainder of the election cycle, the Putin/Trump connection was only occasionally referenced because Hillary was destined to become the first woman president. When she lost—and lost big, electorally speaking—the press and the DNC needed a reason that went beyond her lack of charisma, her sense of entitlement, her lack of ideas, her shady background, and her support of Barack Obama’s many failed policies. The fact that she was the first mainstream presidential candidate to be under investigation by the FBI, also helped to sink her ambitions.
Under the leadership of James Comey the FBI reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton three days before the election, it was the final nail in her political coffin. At that moment, Comey became a pariah amongst democrats, having declared that Hillary’s handling of the emails was a serious breach of classified information, but not necessarily criminal. To add fuel to the fire, Comey’s boss, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, had met privately with Bill Clinton, while his wife was under investigation by the FBI. This was deemed unusual by the press, but probably explainable by whatever explanation was offered, no matter how unlikely. It was also a serious breach of legal conduct. But, again, after a bit of hand wringing, the media at large determined that it was probably just a meeting between old pals, passing family photos around on an airport tarmac, in an empty plane, in the dead of summer. “Don’t we all do this, now and again?” the press asked rhetorically. And, as the potential scandals mounted, the press ran interference for the democrats, doing as little as possible, while maintaining the heat on president Trump.
The murder of Seth Rich, the email scandal and destruction of evidence by Hillary Clinton and staffers, the illegal meeting between Obama’s appointed Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton, the rigging of the election by the DNC on behalf of Hillary—all, were causally examined—and then determined to be of no importance by the mainstream media. So deep does the bias run that news organizations like CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, and The Washington Post are currently prosecuting the case against president Trump, as one might expect a district attorney to do, not members of the 4th estate. This is only my opinion, mind you, based on having observed and written about these events from before the beginning. If yesterday’s villain was James Comey, he is resurrected as today’s hero. Because they know their audience is only hearing one side of the story, like a trial with only a prosecutor and no defense. Likewise, yesterday’s lies can be recycled as today’s truths, since only the insiders know the real truth.
In a post modern world, what is truth anyway? Whatever you want to believe. More reasonably, whatever they want you to believe.
Mark Magula