{"id":1468370,"date":"2022-05-09T07:15:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T11:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468370"},"modified":"2022-05-09T07:16:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T11:16:15","slug":"ministry-of-truth-lady-pushed-trump-russia-collusion-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ministry-of-truth-lady-pushed-trump-russia-collusion-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Truth Lady Pushed Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fministry-of-truth-lady-pushed-trump-russia-collusion-hoax%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468370&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">T<\/span>he head of the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Disinformation Governance Board has an extensive history of promoting baseless Trump-Russia <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/durham-adds-to-spygates-chapter-on-trump-transition\">collusion<\/a> <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/durham-convinces-judge-to-review-concealed-documents-in-clinton-privilege-battle\">claims<\/a> from Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign, including allegations now scrutinized by special counsel John Durham. <\/p>\n<p>Nina Jankowicz has cited Christopher Steele as a disinformation expert, made misleading claims about the funding of his dossier, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/bidens-disinformation-chief-is-trump-dossier-author-fan-and-hunter-laptop-doubter\">cast doubt<\/a> on the Hunter Biden laptop story, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/jankowicz-wrongly-cast-doubt-on-intelligence-saying-iran-tried-to-hurt-trump-reelection\">downplayed<\/a> Iranian election meddling, and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/biden-disinformation-chiefs-criticisms-of-lab-leak-theory-were-boosted-by-ccp\">critiqued<\/a> the Wuhan, China, lab leak hypothesis. <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <i>Washington Examiner<\/i> can report she repeatedly shared the debunked claims about Trump-Russia collusion in 2016 and beyond. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHusband texted me \u2018you have news to wake up to.\u2019 Never thought it would be this,\u201d she <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/793322439505772544\">tweeted<\/a> on Nov. 1, 2016. \u201cConfirms our worst fears about Trump. I am horrified.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She was sharing Clinton\u2019s infamous Halloween <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\/status\/793234169576947712\">tweet<\/a>, which said, \u201dIt&#8217;s time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>That included a screenshot with the caption: \u201cDonald Trump has a secret server (Yes, Donald Trump). It was set up to communicate privately with a Putin-tied Russian bank called Alfa Bank.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Jankowicz <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/793329082167619584\">tweeted<\/a> again that \u201cTrump had not one, but two secret email servers to communicate with influential Russian bank. Unbelievable.\u201d She was sharing a <i>Slate<\/i> <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/cover_story\/2016\/10\/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html\">article<\/a> by Franklin Foer, whom Fusion GPS had been <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/durham-accidentally-releases-fusion-gps-emails-that-were-meant-to-be-under-seal\">feeding<\/a> Trump-Russia stories to, according to emails from Durham. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/175-house-republicans-want-answers-on-dhs-disinfo-board-and-chief\">GOP WANTS ANSWERS ON DHS DISINFO BOARD<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The FBI, CIA, special counsel Robert Mueller, a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee investigation, and Durham\u2019s team have all <u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/cia-has-known-trump-russia-collusion-data-not-technically-plausible-since-2017-durham-says\">cast doubt on<\/a><\/u> or shot down the Alfa-Bank claims. <\/p>\n<p>Democratic cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann has been indicted on charges of <u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/durham-grand-jury-indicts-lawyer-allegedly-lying-fbi-concealing-ties-clinton-campaign\">concealing<\/a><\/u> his clients, including the Clinton <u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/clinton-writes-off-conspiracy-theories-as-durham-digs-around-her-2016-campaign\">campaign<\/a><\/u>, from the FBI when he pushed the <u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/durham-sussmann-put-his-lie-to-the-fbi-in-writing\">debunked<\/a><\/u> Alfa-Bank allegations. <\/p>\n<p>Jankowicz repeatedly shared other collusion claims throughout 2016, including information sourced from Steele\u2019s <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/dossier-author-christopher-steele-looms-large-over-durham-trial\">discredited<\/a> dossier. The British ex-spy was hired by Fusion, which had been hired by Clinton campaign general counsel Marc Elias. <\/p>\n<p>Jankowicz <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/779632462754381824\">tweeted<\/a> in September 2016 that \u201cTrump&#8217;s Kremlin ties don&#8217;t end at Manafort. This is serious people.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylegriffin1\/status\/779458448626847744\">responding<\/a> to a statement by the Clinton campaign about a <i>Yahoo News<\/i> story in which Clinton spokesman Glen Caplin said, \u201cIt\u2019s chilling to learn that U.S. intelligence officials are conducting a probe into suspected meetings between Trump\u2019s foreign policy adviser Carter Page and members of Putin\u2019s inner circle.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The story, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/u-s-intel-officials-probe-ties-between-trump-adviser-and-kremlin-175046002.html\">written<\/a> by Michael Isikoff, was titled \u201cU.S. intel officials probe ties between Trump adviser and Kremlin.\u201d It infamously recounted claims in the Steele dossier, including about Page, and cited Steele as a \u201cWestern intelligence source.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Jankowicz <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/Wiczipedia\/letters\/september-25-nabu-and-carter-who\">wrote<\/a> a <i>Wiczipedia Weekly<\/i> story about the Isikoff article, wherein she talked about Page, saying, \u201cThe fact that a man publicly associated with the campaign set up meetings with high-ranking energy and finance officials in Russia while the candidate he served was publicly encouraging the Kremlin to hack U.S. servers is worrisome.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Mueller \u201cdid not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.\u201d Page was never charged with wrongdoing. <\/p>\n<p>Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz <u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/doj-inspector-general-unable-to-say-if-bias-tainted-carter-page-fisa-process\">criticized <\/a><\/u>the DOJ and FBI for at least 17 \u201csignificant errors and omissions\u201d <u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/unsatisfactory-across-the-board-horowitz-doesnt-trust-fbis-explanations-for-fisa-abuses\">related<\/a><\/u> to the FISA warrants against Page and for the bureau&#8217;s reliance on the dossier. <\/p>\n<p>That was not nearly the end of it for Jankowicz. <\/p>\n<p>She <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/738747498613866496\">referenced<\/a> Clinton&#8217;s claims about former President Donald Trump that June and shared a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170116022136\/https:\/\/medium.com\/@nina.jankowicz\/trump-gives-putin-an-a-for-leadership-here-s-why-that-s-terrifying-ece755cd81f5\">link<\/a> to a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@nina.jankowicz\/trump-gives-putin-an-a-for-leadership-here-s-why-that-s-terrifying-ece755cd81f5\">since-deleted<\/a> <i>Medium<\/i> post by her featuring a mural of Trump and Putin kissing. <\/p>\n<p>Jankowicz wrote, \u201cPutin\u2019s Russia is not a country that any American voter would seek to emulate. The United States should not elect a demagogue who intends to do exactly that.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In July, she <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/cover_story\/2016\/07\/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html\">shared<\/a> a Foer piece titled \u201cPutin\u2019s Puppet,\u201d <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/750345077948575744\">tweeting<\/a>, \u201cBut do we want a president that has so many shady and cozy ties with Russia? No. So yeah, this piece is a must-read.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Jankowicz then <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/766767833950937088\">tweeted<\/a> in August, \u201cManafort not Trump&#8217;s only connection to #Russia and #Putin.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She was <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamParkhomenko\/status\/766702447087742976\">sharing<\/a> a statement from Democratic National Committee national press secretary Mark Paustenbach, who said, \u201cTrump\u2019s campaign still maintains strong ties to Russia and pro-Kremlin elements.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She also <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/762020270114832384\">shared<\/a> a link to a Clinton campaign article, tweeting, &#8220;Trump&#8217;s bizarre relationship with Russia \u2026 Foreign policy matters.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Jankowicz <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/Wiczipedia\/letters\/november-6-the-u-s-election-edition\">wrote<\/a> Nov. 6 that \u201cwhat started months ago as me making jokes about Donald Trump&#8217;s \u2018bromance\u2019 with Putin has actually become an existential threat to our country\u201d and talked about \u201cTrump&#8217;s connections to the Russian netherworld.\u201d She said that after Trump lost, \u201cwe never have to talk about him again (until Putin grants him Russian citizenship).\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Jankowicz <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/808695314911784960\">tweeted<\/a> in December, \u201cTrump is Pinocchio, but what if Putin is Geppetto? American people deserve to know, writes <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvelynNFarkas\">Evelyn Farkas<\/a>,\u201d referencing an Obama official who <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/12\/trump-russia-intelligence-need-to-know-214520\/\">wrote<\/a> in <i>Politico<\/i> that \u201cit is not at all far-fetched to ask whether Trump is indeed the \u2018puppet\u2019 Secretary Clinton mockingly named him.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Farkas claimed that \u201cthere are signs the Trump campaign was involved in coordinating this release of hacked information\u201d and pointed to Page. She suggested that Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Geppetto, the man holding the strings,&#8221; might be Putin. <\/p>\n<p>Jankowicz carried on promoting Clinton campaign-sourced Trump-Russia collusion claims in 2017. <\/p>\n<p>She <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/845719971955200001\">tweeted<\/a> \u201cPreach\u201d that March when sharing a screenshot and a <i>Washington Post<\/i> <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2017\/03\/24\/the-clinton-campaign-warned-you-about-russia-but-nobody-listened-to-us\/\">article<\/a> by Jennifer Palmieri, the Clinton campaign&#8217;s communications director, which was titled \u201cThe Clinton campaign warned you about Russia. But nobody listened to us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The article described efforts to push concerns about Trump and Russia at the Democratic convention in 2016 and beyond. The article concluded that \u201cthe possibility of collusion between Trump\u2019s allies and Russian intelligence is much more serious than Watergate.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>She was also enthusiastic about former FBI Director James Comey\u2019s Senate testimony in June, quoting Comey and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/873021865916289025\">tweeting<\/a> about \u201c#ComeyDay.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>She <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wiczipedia\/status\/872825121278492674\">quoted<\/a> him when he said, \u201cI was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of the meeting.\u201d Jankowicz added, \u201cOur President, y\u2019all.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The fired FBI director was talking about his decision to write the first of his \u201cComey memos\u201d following an early January meeting at Trump Tower, where he relayed claims from the dossier to the then president-elect. CNN reported the meeting a few days later, then <i>BuzzFeed<\/i> published the dossier. <\/p>\n<p>Horowitz <u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump?source=%2Fnews%2Fdoj-inspector-general-condemns-comey-memo-leak-to-force-a-special-counsel\">condemned<\/a><\/u> Comey over leaking his memos to the press, saying he did so to advance his own interests and spark a special counsel. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Jankowicz also directly cited dossier claims in her 2020 book <i>How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe extent of Russian influence over the U.S. election \u2014 and perhaps even the Trump campaign itself \u2014 was becoming clearer and more worrisome with each day that passed in the new young year,\u201d Jankowicz wrote of early 2017. \u201cJust a week earlier, <i>BuzzFeed<\/i> published the explosive and as-of-yet-unverified \u2018Steele dossier\u2019 &#8230; that alleged the president-elect and his team had deep ties to Russian intelligence services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Disinformation Governance Board has an extensive history of promoting baseless Trump-Russia collusion claims from Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign, including<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}