.MaddowBlog: Ignoring Fiona Hill’s warnings, Pres. Trump echoes Russian propaganda.
Yesterday, Dr. Fiona Hill, the former top Russia expert on the White House National Security Council, implored Republicans to stop echoing propaganda created by the Kremlin to undermine the United States and help Moscow. “In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interest,” she testified.”
House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes , a sycophantic White House ally, tried to push back, insisted that Republicans didn’t need the reminder because they already acknowledge the truth. And yet, one day later, Donald Trump appeared on Fox News’ morning program, where he ignored Hill’s warnings, contradicted Nunes, and echoed Russian propaganda.
To the extent that reality still has any meaning, we already know that everything the president said about this conspiracy theory is both wrong and crackpot nonsense. There is no ambiguity: the claim Trump keeps peddling, publicly and to national audiences, is just crazy. Even White House officials have urged the president not to believe it. He doesn’t care.
Or put another way, the American president is helping advance Kremlin propaganda intended to hurt the United States.
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