{"id":1561711,"date":"2022-07-19T18:04:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1561711"},"modified":"2022-07-19T18:04:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T22:04:16","slug":"big-win-for-putin-former-intelligence-officer-blasts-pulitzer-board-after-refusing-to-take-back-russiagate-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/big-win-for-putin-former-intelligence-officer-blasts-pulitzer-board-after-refusing-to-take-back-russiagate-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Big Win For Putin\u2019: Former Intelligence Officer Blasts Pulitzer Board After Refusing To Take Back Russiagate Prizes"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fbig-win-for-putin-former-intelligence-officer-blasts-pulitzer-board-after-refusing-to-take-back-russiagate-prizes%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=1561711&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--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/pulitzer-prize\">Pulitzer Prize Board<\/a>\u2018s decision to stand by its 2018 media awards for coverage of the 2016 allegations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/russiagate\">Russian collusion<\/a> between Russia and then-candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0is a \u201cbig win\u201d for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/vladimir-putin\">Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a>, a former defense intelligence official told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/news\/statement-pulitzer-prize-board-2\">announced<\/a> that it would not revoke the awards in national reporting that it gave to The Washington Post and The New York Times after \u201cseparate reviews converged in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.\u201d Former President Donald Trump had previously requested that Pulitzer scrub the awards after new information has been revealed through various government investigations and additional reporting into the matter which showed that no such collusion existed between his campaign and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPulitzer\u2019s refusal to take back the award given for the inaccurate coverage of the Russiagate Hoax is a big win for Putin,\u201d said Rebekah Koffler, a former Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer specializing in Russian Doctrine &#038; Strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Koffler told The Daily Wire that any interference Putin did in previous elections was meant to cause division and that The Times and The Post played a role in that effort, even if unwittingly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin\u2019s goal for intervening in the U.S. presidential election in 2016 (as well as in 2018 and 2020) by running cyber-enabled and clandestine influence operations was to divide America by pitting Trump and Clinton supporters against one another,\u201d Koffler explained. \u201cThe media outlets, which spread the false \u2018Russia-Trump collusion\u2019 narratives, essentially helped Putin foment chaos in our country and undermine the confidence of the American people in the election process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allegations of collusion with Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/in-other-words-it-was-made-up-jim-jordan-rips-trump-russia-conspiracy-after-latest-durham-filing\">dogged<\/a> Trump during his campaign and throughout his presidency. Ex-special counsel Robert Mueller for three years investigated claims that the Trump campaign had illegally coordinated with Russian agents to influence the 2016 election. He eventually concluded that no such evidence exists.<\/p>\n<p>Koffler, the author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Putins-Playbook-Russias-Secret-America\/dp\/1684510031\">Putin\u2019s Playbook: Russia\u2019s Secret Plan to Defeat America<\/a>,\u201d also told The Daily Wire that Pulitzer\u2019s decision will have negative impacts on American democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of revoking it from the purveyors of fake news, is a major loss for democracy and a big win for Putin and America\u2019s foes,\u201d she said. \u201cThis misguided decision also discredits the award itself, which has been the hallmark of journalistic achievement for over a century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s attorneys blasted the board for not revoking the awards and claimed that the papers in question fed the false narrative that their client had somehow worked with Putin to win in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea that President Trump plotted with Vladimir Putin to skew the 2016 election in his favor was always preposterous. Since 2018, if not before, it has been clear that the articles upon which the Pulitzer Board based its Prize include numerous false statements that are defamatory to our client,\u201d the attorney\u2019s letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/trump-scolds-pulitzer-prize-board-for-standing-by-2018-russiagate-honors\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe assume that in awarding the Prize, the Board was misled by frenzied media reports alleging that President Trump colluded with Russia. That was never plausible, and it has since been proven to have been a cynical invention of Hillary Clinton, her campaign, and the DNC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As p<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/trump-scolds-pulitzer-prize-board-for-standing-by-2018-russiagate-honors\">ointed out by Fox News<\/a>, Pulitzer\u2019s awards were given for articles that included citations of the now largely-debunked Steele Dossier and that reporting after the fact showed much of the allegations against Trump were mere rumors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pulitzer Prize Board\u2018s decision to stand by its 2018 media awards for coverage of the 2016 allegations of Russian collusion between Russia and then-candidate Donald Trump\u00a0is a \u201cbig win\u201d for Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former defense intelligence official told The Daily Wire. On Sunday, the board announced that it would not revoke the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1574551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561711","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\/1561711","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1574551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}