But the fact remains that the Democrats’ full-court press to frame former President Donald Trump as an agent of Russia was the most egregious and consequential political dirty trick in modern memory. Going well beyond a smear campaign, it was an all-hands-on-deck offensive that we now know reached all the way to then-President Barack Obama, then-Vice President Joe Biden, and other top-ranking administration officials.
But none of it would have been possible if journalists hadn’t abandoned all pretense of objectivity and willingly hopped on the bandwagon to trumpet the FBI’s malicious and false narrative that Trump was working with the Kremlin to win the presidency. As the story grew bigger and bigger, our corrupt corporate media amplified the Left’s propaganda and ridiculed Trump’s accusations that he’d been framed. The media are thoroughly complicit.
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George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley recently concluded that the legacy media in the United States now resembles the state media of China or any other totalitarian nation. And he is right.
The purpose of a free press is to hold the government accountable for its actions. According to the ACLU, “free media functions as a watchdog that can investigate and report on government wrongdoing.”
How far the media elite have fallen from those lofty ideals.