The New York Times has brought us the false uranium tubes article to justify the Iraq War, the Hillary email article to hype a nothing into hysteria against her candidacy, and the election-eve article falsely saying the FBI found no credible Trump-Russia connection.
You’d think they’d learn their lesson and return to responsible journalism.
Nope.
Tonight, on the eve of expected Mueller filings this week that will likely show him to be a traitor in a conspiracy with Julian Assange, The Times runs a front page story that “Manafort Tried to Broker Deal With Ecuador to Hand Assange Over to U.S.,” putting a spin on this, especially in the headline, that Manafort was trying to bring Assange to justice in the U.S., so obviously they can’t be co-conspirators. The article is clear btw that Manafort’s lawyers are the source of this info.
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Once again The Times is either complicit or a useful idiot.
The article mentions that Ecuador, NOT Manafort, raised the issue of getting rid of Assange. Manafort didn’t “try” to get Assange shipped to the U.S. Instead, he told the Ecuadorians that he would handle the matter as an intermediary.
Unless you are cold stone stupid, anyone knowing Manafort would see that, given what we know now, Manafort would view the Ecuadorian’s desire to rid themselves of Assange as a mortal threat, and the only way to protect himself would be to take control himself of the process to achieve his own ends. Maybe let his Russian friends know, and arrange a little ‘accident’ along the way. Or just make sure the negotiations broke down and never came to anything. But not even the barest suggestion that Manafort offered his ‘services’ as a ‘broker’ to protect himself.
Idiots. But useful.
You can always count on The Times.