Wednesday Nov 02, 2016 · 7:31 AM EDT
There have been a number of Trump-Russian stories in the last few days, e.g. Franklin Foer/Slate, NBC and David Corn/Mother Jones, and a partial pushback on them from NY Times.
Noah Rothman/Commentary has more:
All these stories appeared in overtly liberal opinion magazines or center-left journalistic outlets. This cluster of revelations followed a conference call between members of the press and ranking Clinton campaign operatives hammering the theme of links between Trump and the Russian government. Doubtless in response to the cascade of stories linking Trump to Russia, sources within the FBI revealed to the Times they did not believe there were any operational links between the Kremlin and the GOP nominee. More important for Trump, the bank scandal involving DNS traffic between a Trump organization server and a Russian bank was almost certainly innocuous.
That revelation was a godsend for the GOP nominee. By invalidating the implications about the bank in Franklin Foer’s piece at Slate—suggesting basically that Trump was a paid Russian operative—the Times had provided the Republican candidate with a way to lacquer all of the revelations regarding his support for and from Moscow with a veneer of doubt. If one is dubious, so, too, must all of them be suspect.
Don’t believe it.
Donald Trump has spent the last 17 months ingratiating himself with Moscow and serving as Vladimir Putin’s chief spokesman in the United States. This is not without purpose.
Read more
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/2/1589625/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Round-up-The-Trump-Russian-connection-is-real-so-is-anger-with-James-Comey
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