Bunch: The NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016

[Nevilledog]

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/mcgonigal-russian-oligarch-trump-2016-election-20230129.html

No paywall
https://archive.is/p6iuh


It was arguably the most consequential “October Surprise” in the history of American presidential elections. In the waning days of the 2016 race, with polls showing Hillary Clinton clinging to a lead over Donald Trump, two last-minute stories broke that rekindled on-the-fence voters’ ethical doubts about Democrat Clinton and quashed a budding scandal around her GOP rival.

Except the “October Surprise” was no surprise to one key player: Rudolph Giuliani, the ex-New York mayor and Trump insider who later became the 45th president’s attorney. Late that month, Giuliani told Fox News that the trailing Republican nominee had “a surprise or two that you’re going to hear about in the next few days. I mean, I’m talking about some pretty big surprises.”

Just two days later, then-FBI director James Comey revealed the bureau had reopened its probe into Clinton’s emails, based on the possible discovery of new communications on a laptop belonging to disgraced New York politico Anthony Weiner. The news jolted the campaign with a particularly strong boost from the New York Times, which devoted two-thirds of its front page to the story — and the notion it was a major blow to Clinton’s prospects.

It was later reported that Comey was motivated to make the unusual announcement about the laptop because he feared leaks from the FBI’s New York field office, which, according to Reuters, had “a faction of investigators based in the office known to be hostile to Hillary Clinton.” Indeed, Giuliani bragged immediately after that he had sources in the FBI, including current agents.

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[JohnSJ]

1. They weren't the only ones.

[mahina]

2. And the invasion of Iraq for no reason. They are 100% complicit and we deserve to know why

As well as hear apologies and a promise to do better.

[TheRealNorth]

7. Would be good to know....

Who the "Useful Idiots" at the NYT are.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Agree with Bunch.

One fake story can make or break an election and a country. Same for its omission, as Trump and Russia spell treason.

Geesh. We saw Steno Judy and NYT lie America into an illegal, immoral and unnecessary war on Iraq, too.

[tenderfoot]

4. They seem to have been at it since the newspaper was founded

I don't have links but there was a recent expose of the NY Times history of printing stories supporting coups in foreign countries, military actions... fuckin' Hitler!!! going back a century.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Once there was a magazine to correct the Paper of Record.

Lies Of Our Times

https://archive.org/details/LiesOfOurTimesCollection/Aug1990-V1-N8/

Around the time of Poppy’s Panama Invasion, another war based on lies, one meant to end the “Vietnam Syndrome.” LOOT only lasted a couple of years before the-powers-that-be-rich-too overwhelmed them.

[MagickMuffin]

5. Comey knew what he was doing, he knew it'd have a negative impact

Otherwise he would have done the investigation privately and not broadcast it to the world.

He got rid of the most qualified candidate and gave us a Russian spy and Russian asset.


I wish Comey nothing but misery for the rest of his life.