{"id":2469847,"date":"2025-08-01T19:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/everything-damaging-to-dems-is-russian-disinformation-to-the-media\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T19:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:23:21","slug":"everything-damaging-to-dems-is-russian-disinformation-to-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/everything-damaging-to-dems-is-russian-disinformation-to-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Damaging To Dems Is &#8216;Russian Disinformation&#8217; To The Media"},"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\">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%2Feverything-damaging-to-dems-is-russian-disinformation-to-the-media%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=2469847&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 article discusses a recurring pattern in which damaging data about Democrats is quickly dismissed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-he-guilty-of-sexual-misconduct-depends-on-his-political-party\/\" title=\"Is He Guilty Of Sexual Misconduct? Depends On His Political Party.\">major media outlets<\/a> as &#8220;Russian disinformation,&#8221; even when evidence strongly supports its authenticity. Recently declassified documents reveal that Hillary clinton&#8217;s 2016 campaign strategized to falsely link Donald Trump to Russia, fueling the fabricated Russia-Trump collusion narrative that unfairly targeted Trump and his associates.Rather of investigating these revelations seriously, prominent media like The New York Times portrayed the emails as likely created by Russian spies to downplay their significance. The article highlights that Special Counsel john Durham&#8217;s report found the emails to be composites obtained via Russian intelligence hacks but did not conclude that they were entirely fabricated, contrary to media claims. The author criticizes the media&#8217;s unwillingness to hold Democrats accountable and notes a similar dismissal occurred when Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop was leaked, initially labeled disinformation before being acknowledged as genuine. This pattern, the article argues, undermines truthful reporting and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >shields political wrongdoers<\/a> from scrutiny.  <\/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 class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/statephotos\/6913419969\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. State Department\/Flickr<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/01\/everything-damaging-to-democrats-is-russian-disinformation-to-the-media\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Everything%20Damaging%20To%20Democrats%20Is%20%E2%80%98Russian%20Disinformation%E2%80%99%20To%20The%20Media&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/01\/everything-damaging-to-democrats-is-russian-disinformation-to-the-media\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Everything%20Damaging%20To%20Democrats%20Is%20%E2%80%98Russian%20Disinformation%E2%80%99%20To%20The%20Media&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/01\/everything-damaging-to-democrats-is-russian-disinformation-to-the-media\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/01\/everything-damaging-to-democrats-is-russian-disinformation-to-the-media\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Everything%20Damaging%20To%20Democrats%20Is%20%E2%80%98Russian%20Disinformation%E2%80%99%20To%20The%20Media&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/01\/everything-damaging-to-democrats-is-russian-disinformation-to-the-media\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>There&rsquo;s a reliable pattern: Whenever something truly devastating to Democrats comes to light, the dying news media will immediately call it &ldquo;Russian disinformation,&rdquo; even when the goods are 1,000 percent real; the latest being newly declassified documents<strong> <\/strong>this week with yet more evidence indicating that Hillary Clinton&rsquo;s 2016 campaign planned to smear Trump by connecting him to Russia &mdash; the basis of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/01\/how-the-propaganda-press-jumped-on-the-russia-hoax-and-tried-to-save-hillarys-floundering-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">completely fabricated<\/a> Russia-Trump collusion hoax that ultimately framed President Trump and his associates with crimes they didn&rsquo;t commit.<\/p>\n<p>An alternate reality exists wherein the New York Times assesses the new details and concludes that one of the country&rsquo;s major political parties engaged in some truly corrupt, sinister conduct, and perhaps there might be avenues to pursue legal accountability. Unfortunately, we live in this reality where the Times runs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/31\/us\/politics\/trump-clinton-emails-russia-investigation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the headline<\/a>, &ldquo;&lsquo;Clinton Plan&rsquo; Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows,&rdquo; a naked attempt to dismiss what the new information actually shows.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-854566000\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Senate Republicans on Thursday declassified a portion of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-fbi-official-violated-policy-accepted-dinners-and-black-tie-event-invitations-from-media\/\" title=\"Senior FBI Official Violated Policy, Accepted Dinners And Black-Tie Event Invitations From Media\">special counsel report<\/a> that included purported communications involving the 2016 Clinton campaign and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/person\/george-soros\/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=21528170330&amp;gbraid=0AAAAADd8GfgopGRMZiSjKFSAsboMIM1yY&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwy7HEBhBJEiwA5hQNovKbvABqFuguMfnYlZV6V_IuImhLdooKZEX_LE3hJnka3nDC3cLcPxoCwwsQAvD_BwE#political-activities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">left-wing<\/a> non-profit group, which suggest the parties plotted to implicate Trump and his campaign in Russian election interference. The best part of the article, authored by Times reporters Charlie Savage and Adam Goldman, is when they brush annex revelations aside, essentially<strong> <\/strong>because Durham couldn&rsquo;t locate the originals of a couple of<strong> <\/strong>emails.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pack it up guys! Nothing to see here!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s not an exaggeration. &ldquo;[U]ltimately, in weighing all the evidence,&rdquo; the article said, &ldquo;[Special Counsel John] Durham concluded that the Russians had probably faked the key emails&hellip;&rdquo; But that&rsquo;s not true. The immediate paragraph thereafter quotes a line included in the annex documents that literally says Duram&rsquo;s office assessed the emails in question to be &ldquo;a composite of several emails that were obtained through Russian intelligence hacking of the U.S.-based Think Tanks, including the Open Society Foundations, the Carnegie Endowment, and others.&rdquo; As The Federalist&rsquo;s Elle Purnell <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/01\/dont-believe-the-lies-from-nyt-russia-hoaxers-about-the-durham-annex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a>, that&rsquo;s &ldquo;obviously not the same thing as saying he thought the Russians completely made them up.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The annex docs also explicitly state that while Durham may not have been able to track down the originals of Bernardo&rsquo;s emails, his office did &ldquo;identify certain emails, attachments, and documents that contain language and references with the exact same or similar verbiage.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Durham found overlapping content, even though he was unable to conclude that the final format it was presented in was authentic. That&rsquo;s like being able to cross-reference the information on a Wikipedia page, even if you can&rsquo;t be certain who authored the entry. Not knowing who wrote it doesn&rsquo;t automatically make the content untrue.<\/p>\n<p>That Clinton&rsquo;s campaign conspired with former President Obama&rsquo;s intelligence agencies and the news media to push the Russia-collusion hoax has long been established. What we&rsquo;re seeing now are the specific communications that appear to be behind a plan to smear a key presidential nominee ahead of the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>But the Times prefers a different historical record, one that instead views the perverse plot as &ldquo;a product of Russian disinformation.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s the dying media&rsquo;s preferred method when Democrats are exposed. Recall that immediately after Hunter Biden&rsquo;s sticky laptop surfaced, it too was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/27\/former-intel-officials-who-signed-infamous-hunter-biden-laptop-letter-remain-defiant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brushed aside<\/a> as &ldquo;Russian disinformation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And then, when it no longer mattered, the media admitted it was real. How long before that plays out again? Or maybe they&rsquo;ll just stick with the lie this time.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Visit on Twitter<\/span>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eScarry\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-decoration-none\">@eScarry<\/a>           <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 d-flex justify-content-center justify-content-md-end mt-15 mt-md-0\">        <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/eddiescarry\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">More Articles<\/a>     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/2016\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">2016<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/adam-goldman\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Adam Goldman<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/charlie-savage\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Charlie Savage<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/hillary-clinton\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/media\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Media<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/new-york-times\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/russia\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Russia<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/russia-hoax\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Russia hoax<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/russiagate\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Russiagate<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Credit U.S. State Department\/Flickr Share on Facebook, Twitter, Truth Social Copy Link Email There&#8217;s a pattern: When damaging info about Democrats emerges, the fading media labels it &#8220;Russian disinformation,&#8221; 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