{"id":2342692,"date":"2024-09-18T08:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-anyone-should-be-jailed-for-misinformation-its-hillary-clinton\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T08:02:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:02:22","slug":"if-anyone-should-be-jailed-for-misinformation-its-hillary-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-anyone-should-be-jailed-for-misinformation-its-hillary-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"If Anyone Should Be Jailed For \u2018Misinformation&#8217; It&#8217;s Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fif-anyone-should-be-jailed-for-misinformation-its-hillary-clinton%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=2342692&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>Hillary Clinton recently expressed on MSNBC that she believes Americans who disseminate \u200c&#8221;misinformation&#8221; \u2062and Russian propaganda should face \u200bprosecution. In her \u200ddiscussion with Rachel \u2063Maddow, she emphasized the importance of holding Russians accountable for electoral interference but suggested\u200b that prosecuting Americans engaged in similar activities would act as a better deterrent, given the improbability of trying Russians in the U.S. Clinton&#8217;s stance has drawn criticism for \u2064undermining\u2062 First Amendment rights, as many argue that Americans are entitled to express\u2062 any viewpoints, including those considered distasteful or false. The article \u2062also \u200ccontends that the terms &#8220;misinformation,&#8221; &#8220;disinformation,&#8221; and &#8220;malinformation&#8221; reflect subjective judgments about unpopular \u2063facts or opinions rather than objective truths.<\/p>\n<p>The critique then shifts to highlighting Clinton&#8217;s \u200down role in propagating \u200bRussian narratives, suggesting that \u200dshe\u200d should be the first to face prosecution under the standards she\u200d proposes. The article cites the 2016 Trump-Russia conspiracy theory as an example of her involvement, noting that extensive investigations concluded there was no evidence of collusion by Donald Trump, while evidence pointed to weaknesses in\u2064 Clinton&#8217;s narrative. \u200dAllegations are made against Clinton for her campaign&#8217;s \u2064connections with Fusion GPS, which hired \u200da former British spy, Christopher \u2064Steele, to investigate potential links between Trump and Russia. The resulting Steele dossier, \u2064which is \u200ddescribed\u2063 as discredited, served to insinuate wrongdoing on Trump&#8217;s part,\u200d while actual connections appeared to be more aligned with Clinton&#8217;s campaign activities. The narrative\u2064 concludes \u200dby expressing \u200bskepticism about \u2062the legitimacy of Clinton&#8217;s current propositions regarding misinformation in the context of her historical actions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hillary Clinton went on MSNBC this week and told Rachel Maddow that she thinks Americans who spread &ldquo;misinformation&rdquo; and Russia propaganda should be prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>In a conversation about the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/06\/desperate-democrats-are-pushing-yet-another-version-of-the-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent Justice Department indictment<\/a>&nbsp;of several alleged Kremlin-run websites and Russian state media employees, Clinton said it&rsquo;s important to indict Russians who interfere in our elections but there are also Americans &ldquo;engaged in this kind of propaganda&rdquo; and that if they were civilly or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-cheers-7-7-million-registered-voters-ahead-of-january-run-off-republicans-left-looking-inept-and-stupid\/\" title=\"Stacey Abrams Cheers 7.7 Million Registered Voters Ahead of January Run-Off \u2014 REPUBLICANS LEFT LOOKING INEPT AND STUPID\">criminally charged<\/a> it would be &ldquo;a better deterrent&rdquo; because it&rsquo;s unlikely any Russians will ever stand trial in the United States.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>BREAKING: Hillary Clinton suggests jailing Americans for posting &#8220;misinformation&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There needs to be deterrence&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/soxI3wl7To\">pic.twitter.com\/soxI3wl7To<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1835873305670128099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>What she&rsquo;s describing is of course odious and totally incompatible with the First Amendment. Americans are free to spread as much Russian propaganda as they want, whether they believe any of it or not. We can shout all kinds of things from the street corner, hand out conspiracy theory pamphlets in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/she-accused-a-man-of-attempted-rape-and-kidnapping-and-he-spent-a-month-in-jail-she-lied\/\" title=\"False accusations of attempted rape and kidnapping led to a wrongful month-long jail stay for a man\">grocery store parking lot<\/a>, and post the craziest stuff you&rsquo;ve ever heard all day along on social media. If Hillary Clinton doesn&rsquo;t like it, she can go pound sand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More to the point though, &ldquo;misinformation&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t actually a thing. Neither is disinformation or malinformation. These are Soviet terms that relate to psychological warfare. When Clinton and Maddow and other Democrats use these terms what they really mean is, &ldquo;facts I don&rsquo;t like and opinions I disagree with.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But fine, for the sake of argument if Clinton wants to go down this road, let&rsquo;s go. Let&rsquo;s say we&rsquo;re going to start criminally prosecuting American citizens for spreading Russia propaganda. In that case, Clinton herself is first up. No one has done more to interfere in our elections by spreading Russian propaganda than Hillary Clinton herself. She is arguably the greatest spreader of Russian propaganda and lies in American history, so she can be first to stand trial under these insane new rules she&rsquo;s proposing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After all, it was the Clinton campaign that created the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy, which hamstrung the incoming Trump administration and held the nation hostage for more than two years. After 2,800 subpoenas, 500 witness interview, and nearly 300 wiretaps and pen registers, Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded that there was zero evidence of collusion by Trump or his associates.<\/p>\n<p>There was no evidence Trump ever colluded with Russia, but there&rsquo;s mountains of evidence that Clinton did. Recall it was her campaign that hired Fusion GPS in April 2016 to do opposition research on Trump, then the resumptive GOP nominee. At the time, Fusion GPS was also working on behalf of Prevezon, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-please-pardon-jon-woods-a-victim-of-process-crimes-like-michael-flynn\/\" title=\"President Trump, Please Pardon Jon Woods, a Victim of Process Crimes Like Michael Flynn\">company owned<\/a> by Kremlin-connected Russian oligarch Denis Katsyv, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tractor-supplys-dei-reversal-shows-citizen-activism-works\/\" title=\"Tractor Supply&#039;s DEI Reversal Shows Citizen Activism Works\">company&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s battle with U.S. prosecutors over Magnitsky Act sanctions. After the Clinton campaign and the DNC retained Fusion GPS, the firm hired Christopher Steele, a former British spy, to dig up dirt on any possible connections between Trump and Russia. These campaign expenditures to Fusion GPS were never disclosed by the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The various reports and memoranda that Steele produced and circulated to the media and the FBI came to be known as the Steel dossier, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pompeo-chinese-still-doing-disease-research-like-before-covid\/\" title=\"Pompeo: Chinese Still Doing Disease Research Like Before COVID\">eventually&#038;nbsp<\/a>;<a href=\"https:\/\/v2-9mdnszte.thefederalist.com\/2018\/01\/10\/10-takeaways-from-glenn-simpsons-fusion-gps-senate-testimony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thoroughly debunked and discredited<\/a>. But at the time they served the useful political purpose of insinuating to the media and the FBI that Moscow had dirt on Trump, who was a secret agent of the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>The dossier set off a firestorm after it was briefed to president-elect Trump in January 2017 and then published by Buzzfeed. At the time, it seemed that there were some real connections between Trump and Russia, but in fact that connections were all on Clinton&rsquo;s side. Steele, for example, had his very own Russian benefactor, Oleg Deripaska, whom Steele referred to as &ldquo;our favorite business tycoon.&rdquo; Deripaska was barred by sanctions from traveling to the U.S., yet Steele tried several times to broker a meeting between Deripaska and the Obama administration&rsquo;s Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>One of the top DOJ officials whom Steele reached out to on behalf of Deripaska was Bruce Ohr, whose wife Nellie Ohr&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/08\/28\/bruce-ohr-congressional-interview-799031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">earned more than $40,000 working for Fusion GPS on Trump-Russia connections<\/a>. It was Ohr (Bruce, not Nellie) who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/740312\/transcript-of-bruce-ohrs-private-testimony-to-house-task-force-released\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">became the secret go-between for Steele and the FBI<\/a>&nbsp;after Steele was fired as a confidential human source after the bureau found out he had lied about his contacts with the media regarding the dossier.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Clinton campaign collusion with Russia gets even worse. The Russian attorney for Prevezon, the Russian company Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/meetings\/IG\/IG00\/20180118\/106796\/HMTG-115-IG00-20180118-SD002.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">worked for directly<\/a>, was a woman named Natasha Veselnitskaya. She&rsquo;s the one who set up a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Jared Kushner and Donald Trump, Jr., that was touted as evidence the Trump campaign was colluding with corrupt Russian officials. In that meeting, Veselnitskaya promised to provide &ldquo;dirt&rdquo; on Clinton to the Trump campaign, but the information itself&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-russia-fusion\/trump-clinton-camps-both-offered-slice-of-dossier-firms-work-sources-idUSKBN1D937W\/?il=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was actually produced by Fusion GPS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is but a brief and incomplete overview. The connections and collusion between the Clinton campaign and Russia are extensive and damning. (For a more thorough accounting of the Clinton campaign&rsquo;s collusion with Russia, see my colleague Sean Davis&rsquo;s 2019 piece on the subject&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/03\/28\/campaign-colluded-russians-2016-hillary-clintons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say that if we&rsquo;re going to start prosecuting Americans for spreading Russian propaganda, the very first person we should charge is Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. He is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pagan-America-Decline-Christianity-Dark\/dp\/1684514444\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Pagan+America&amp;qid=1695306441&amp;sr=8-1\"><i>Pagan America: the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come<\/i><\/a>. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillary Clinton appeared on MSNBC this week and expressed to Rachel Maddow her belief that Americans who disseminate &#8220;misinformation&#8221; and Russian propaganda should face prosecution. During a discussion regarding the recent Justice Department indictment of various websites allegedly operated by the Kremlin and employees of Russian state media, Clinton emphasized the necessity of holding Russians accountable for election interference. However, she also pointed out that there are Americans involved in similar propaganda efforts, suggesting that civil or criminal charges against them would serve as a stronger deterrent since it is improbable that any Russians will be tried in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton&#8217;s stance raises significant concerns about First Amendment rights, as Americans are permitted to share any information they choose, including Russian propaganda. If Clinton disapproves of this freedom, she should accept it rather than seek to restrict it.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, terms like &#8220;misinformation,&#8221; &#8220;disinformation,&#8221; and &#8220;malinformation&#8221; are often used by politicians like Clinton and Maddow to describe facts or opinions they disagree with rather than actual categories of harmful information.<\/p>\n<p>If we were to entertain Clinton&#8217;s proposal for prosecuting American citizens for spreading Russian propaganda, one could argue that she herself would be among the first charged. Throughout her political career, particularly during the 2016 election cycle, she has been implicated in promoting narratives related to Russia that have significantly influenced public perception and political discourse.<\/p>\n<p>The origins of these narratives can be traced back to her campaign&#8217;s actions\u2014specifically hiring Fusion GPS for opposition research on Donald Trump while simultaneously engaging with individuals connected to Russia. This included funding efforts leading up to what became known as the Steele dossier\u2014a collection of unverified claims about Trump&#8217;s connections with Russia\u2014which ultimately proved unfounded but served its purpose at the time by casting suspicion on Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, connections between members of her campaign and various Russian entities further complicate matters; notably involving meetings intended to gather damaging information about Trump which were orchestrated through intermediaries linked back to Fusion GPS.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, if there is a push towards prosecuting individuals for spreading Russian propaganda within America\u2019s political landscape based on Hillary Clinton\u2019s criteria, then logically speaking\u2014she should be one of those first held accountable given her extensive involvement in such activities during her campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":2342693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Hillary-Clinton.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7380,32624,5894],"class_list":["post-2342692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-misinformation","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Hillary-Clinton.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342692","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\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2342693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}