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Author of Swiftboating America, the definitive account of the greatest political crime in history.

Nov 15, 2021, 6 tweets

Here are 4 unskeptical claims in just 1 article:

-you claim that Steele is respected
-you try and make it look like Republicans had something to do with the dossier
-you absolve Hillary
-you fail to tell your readers that NOTHING has been corroborated

nytimes.com/2017/10/25/us/…

More:

-you claim that questions over the dossier are "partisan attacks"
-you unskeptically repeat misinformation about GOP funding
-you mislead your readers about the fact that Steele hasn't been in Russia in decades
-you unskeptically parrot Clinton lies
nytimes.com/2017/10/24/us/…

This one is particularly egregious:

-you again misdirect about GOP funding of the dossier
-but then you go all in on creating false innuendo about the role that Washington Free Beacon and Paul Singer might've played in creating the dossier

nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/…

This one's really bad too, Ken.

The article is a giant whitewash of the fact that the FBI kept used Steele, even after he was fired, with Ohr as the conduit.

You make it look as if that was really about Deripaska and the Trump stuff was just incidental.
nytimes.com/2018/09/01/us/…

Bonus from the previous article. Steele roping in Ohr at every opportunity and every step of the way was just "a friendly heads-up". It definitely had nothing to do with getting his dossier lies into the FBI and DOJ.

Not sure I can take 22 minutes of Ken and his fellow stenographer Matt Apuzzo talking about the dossier but if anyone feels like it, here it is:

nytimes.com/2017/10/30/pod…

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