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In the days since President Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin, the liberal media have been bringing back their Russian collusion narrative in a very big way. They’re now openly pushing claims Trump committing treason, a crime punishable by death, and have been growing bold in suggesting the President was a Russian agent. CNN media reporter Brian Stelter even boasted about their new courage during Sunday’s “Reliable Sources,” even seeming to suggest it was somehow the “neutral” position.
Stelter kicked off the program by opining about how future historians would look back on this last week and proudly proclaim “this was the week that something changed. Something really shifted in the conversations about the President.”
“Uncomfortable questions moved into the mainstream in a big way. Trump's odd behavior with Vladimir Putin is compelling so many people to ask: ‘What does Putin have on Trump? Has Trump been compromised,’” he boasted. “All of those people, those experts, those reporters, they are looking at the fact pattern and seeing something strange, even sinister.”
After playing clips of MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson, and CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin (all known for their “thoughtful” commentary and their everyman connections) suggesting Trump was Russia’s puppet, Stelter touted “these concerns are now in the bloodstream in a whole new way.”
His evidence for Trump being a Russian agent included the angry ramblings of Obama-era political appointees in former CIA Director John Brennan and DNI James Clapper. “So we've seen some concern official and lawmakers trying to sound the alarm, some by speaking on the record, others by leaking to journalists,” he said.
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