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As Trump's lawyer—working with Russian intelligence—pushes lies about Biden, Matt Taibbi writes in the NY Post that claims Trump's circle had "repeated contacts with Russian intelligence" have been "debunked"
And does so to bolster a story being pushed by Russian intelligence
And does so to bolster a story being pushed by Russian intelligence
I don't know what happened to Taibbi—but I know a 500-pg. OSC report on Team Trump contacts with Russian intelligence, a 1,000-pg. GOP-led Senate report on Team Trump contacts with Russian intelligence, and 10,000 news reports on *this very topic* haven't changed some folks' tune
I also know that when 3 bestselling nonfiction books totaling 1,500+ pages and including 12,000 major-media citations detailing Team Trump contacts with Russian intelligence were published by 2 "Big 5" NYC trade presses, Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald read not a *word* of any of them
On the list of people who have acted with inexplicable cowardice and disingenuity in the Trump era, we have to put people like Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald right up there with Lindsey Graham and the gallery of Trump rogues and enablers forever disgraced in the eyes of history
Kilimnik is Russian intelligence, Derkach is Russian intelligence, Butina is Russian intelligence, Torshin is Russian intelligence, Gorkov is Russian intelligence, Lavrov is Russian intelligence and the story of Trump's plots in Russia/Ukraine is *lousy* with Russian intelligence
I teach my journalism students that op-ed writing is journalism because—while subjective—it must still be *factual*, but how am I supposed to teach that when Matt Taibbi lies in the New York Post and says that the most richly documented fact in American politics has been debunked