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> Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign manager testified that Clinton herself
> approved leaking the fake Trump-Alfa Bank story to the press...


Shouldn't Hillary Clinton Be Banned From Twitter Now?

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/shouldnt-hillary-clinton-be-banned
https://nypost.com/2022/05/20/hillary-clinton-okd-sharing-trump-russia-data-campaign-manager/

Trial testimony reveals Hillary Clinton personally approved serious
election misinformation. Is there an anti-Trump exception to content
moderation?

Last week, in the trial of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael
Sussmann, prosecutor Andrew DeFilippis asked ex-campaign manager Robby
Mook about the decision to share with a reporter a bogus story about
Donald Trump and Russia’s Alfa Bank. Mook answered by giving up his
onetime boss. “I discussed it with Hillary,” he said, describing his
pitch to the candidate: “Hey, you know, we have this, and we want to
share it with a reporter… She agreed to that.”

In a country with a functioning media system, this would have been a
huge story. Obviously this isn’t Watergate, Hillary Clinton was never
president, and Sussmann’s trial doesn’t equate to prosecutions of
people like Chuck Colson or Gordon Liddy. But as we’ve slowly been
learning for years, a massive fraud was perpetrated on the public with
Russiagate, and Mook’s testimony added a substantial piece of the
picture, implicating one of the country’s most prominent politicians
in one of the more ambitious disinformation campaigns we’ve seen.

There are two reasons the Clinton story isn’t a bigger one in the
public consciousness.

One is admitting the enormity of what took place would require
system-wide admissions by the FBI, the CIA, and, as Matt Orfalea’s
damning video above shows, virtually every major news media
organization in America.

More importantly, there’s no term for the offense Democrats committed
in 2016, though it was similar to Watergate. Instead of a “third-rate
burglary” and a bug, Democrats sent schlock research to the FBI, who
in turn lied to the secret FISA court and obtained “legal”
surveillance authority over former Trump aide Carter Page (which
opened doors to searches of everyone connected to Page). Worse,
instead of petty “ratfucking” like Donald Segretti’s “Canuck letter,”
the Clinton campaign created and fueled a successful, years-long
campaign of official harassment and media fraud. They innovated an
extraordinary trick, using government connections and press to
generate real criminal and counterintelligence investigations of
political enemies, mostly all based on what we now know to be
self-generated nonsense.

The Clintons, and especially Hillary, have been baselessly accused of
all sorts of things in the past, the murder of Vince Foster being just
one example. The “vast right-wing conspiracy” was so successful that
the Clintons ended up aligning with and helping fund its chief
architect, David Brock, ahead of the 2016 cycle. Along with Perkins
Coie and the research agency Fusion-GPS, headed by former Wall Street
Journal reporter and current self-admiring sleaze-merchant Glenn
Simpson, they engineered three long years of phony “collusion”
headlines. No matter what papers like the Washington Post try to argue
this week, this was an enormous scandal.

The world has mostly moved on, since Russiagate was thirty or forty
“current things” ago, but the public prosecution of the collusion
theory was a daily preoccupation of national media for years. A
substantial portion of the population believed the accusations, and
expected the story would end with Donald Trump in jail or at least
indicted, scrolling for a thousand straight days in desperate
expectation of the promised justice. Trump was bounced from Twitter
for incitement, but Twitter has a policy against misinformation as
well. It includes a prohibition against “misleading” media that is
“likely to result in widespread confusion on public issues.”

I’m not a fan of throwing people off Twitter, but how can knowingly
launching thousands of bogus news stories across a period of years,
leading millions of people to believe lies and expect news that never
arrived, not qualify as causing “widespread confusion on public
issues”?