As media pounce on Donald Trump Jr. – and implicate his father – in an unsuccessful effort to get damaging information about Hillary Clinton from a Russian source…
…maybe this would be a good time to remember which candidate did get such information, and had no problem using it.
From Rowan Scarborough’s article for the Washington Times:
While the liberal news media hunts for evidence of Trump–Russia collusion, the public record shows that Democrats have willfully used Moscow disinformation to influence the presidential election against Donald Trump and attack his administration.
The disinformation came in the form of a Russian-fed dossier written by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele. It contains a series of unverified criminal charges against Mr. Trump’s campaign aides, such as coordinating Moscow’s hacking of Democratic Party computers.
Some Democrats have widely circulated the discredited information. Mr. Steele was paid by the Democrat-funded opposition research firm Fusion GPS with money from a Hillary Clinton backer. Fusion GPS distributed the dossier among Democrats and journalists. The information fell into the hands of the FBI, which used it in part to investigate Mr. Trump’s campaign aides.
Mr. Steele makes clear that his unproven charges came almost exclusively from sources linked to the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He identified his sources as “a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure,” a former “top level Russian intelligence officer active inside the Kremlin,” a “senior Kremlin official” and a “senior Russian government official.”
Hmmmm.
Information from a Russian source. Not offered by someone at no charge, but bought and paid for by a Clinton backer, then used by Clinton and her people.
How’s that for a reminder?
I assume, of course, that the same media smelling blood in the water over Donald Trump Jr. have been skewering Hillary Clinton over the bogus Russian dossier for months now, ominously speaking of the ethical and legal implications, speculating on what affect it would have on her political future, etc.
See, I have to assume those things. Because they did not happen. And won’t. Going after a politician for using Russia as an informational source is a one party exercise. And the one party is Republican.
So you can count on them continuing to go after the two Donalds – Jr. and dad – with all they’ve got. It clearly gives them great satisfaction.
All that’s missing is honest journalism.
