EXCLUSIVE: Clinton campaign, DNC helped pay for research that led to Russia dossier https://t.co/BCrMH9KndR
— Adam Entous (@adamentous) October 24, 2017
Except it wasn't exclusive and it wasn't even breaking. The information in the story has been known for more than a year.
Not sure how this is an exclusive nor how oppo research is news. But certainly fits into the Russia Reversal, where heralds become traitors. https://t.co/hz7Syn1Am1
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) October 25, 2017
Where Heralds Become Traitors will be the title of the book I scrawl on the walls of the gulag.
And it is so obviously choreographed I warned people of it a week ago and gave a talk on it before it happened https://t.co/rpW9mrCfwZ
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) October 25, 2017
Choreographed to the soundtrack of thousands of deplorables chanting LOCK HER UP.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) October 25, 2017
So that's from a member of the press. And this from a rightwing intellectual [sic]:
As I said, the right will brand Hillary Clinton a traitor in pursuit of a show trial. And here we go. pic.twitter.com/0GKRElK7t5
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) October 25, 2017
And this from a sitting U.S. Senator:
Whoever in DOJ is capable w authority to appoint a special counsel shld do so to investigate Uranium One "whoever" means if u aren't recused
— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) October 25, 2017
Let me as blunt about this as it's possible to be: Insisting that an authoritarian takeover can't happen here is not an effective response to evidence that an authoritarian takeover is happening here.
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