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TrollBuster9090

(5,955 posts) Fri Jan 25, 2019, 07:29 PM Jan 2019

Question: Did Hannity/Fox Coordinate The Wikileaks Cover Story With Stone? Guess We'll Find Out...

When the Podesta email troves started being released by Wikileaks it soon became common knowledge that it was the Russians who hacked Podesta's account, and passed it to Assange.

Common knowledge everywhere except at Fox News (Hannity in particular), where they were pushing a counter narrative around the clock. The counter narrative that SETH RICH was the source of the hacked Podesta emails, and that he was murdered because of it. This qualifies as a disinformation campaign.

Hannity flew to London to get Assange to claim "I didn't get anything from the Russian government." (Big deal, we all know intelligence agencies use deniable, intermediary 'cut outs' to leak kompromat. Parsing your words to say that Putin didn't personally had you a zip drive doesn't mean he wasn't behind it.)

Then, having got his 'confirmation' that the Podesta emails didn't come (directly) from Russia, Hannity went full bore on the conspiracy theory that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich was a disgruntled Bernie supporter who leaked Podesta's emails to Assange, and was murdered for it.

Does that make Fox/Hannity co-conspirators? Maybe. Especially if the fake cover story was coordinated through people like Stone.

I'm assuming one of the reasons Mueller is interested in Trump drafting the bogus statement about the Trump Tower meeting being about adoption, instead of sanctions relief, is because Trump met with Putin the day before at the G20 summit in Germany, and Putin told him to use that as the cover story. Thus, making Trump a co-conspirator. The same thing might apply to Hannity, and the others, who pushed the cover story that Russia wasn't behind the Wikileaks hack.

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Question: Did Hannity/Fox Coordinate The Wikileaks Cover Story With Stone? Guess We'll Find Out... (Original Post) TrollBuster9090 Jan 2019 OP

I suspect there are several people who work or worked at fox news who just might expose that still_one Jan 2019 #1

It'll also come out at the Stone trial, no doubt. nt. TrollBuster9090 Jan 2019 #2

And Assange just lies dawg day Jan 2019 #3

Of course... Blue_Tires Jan 2019 #4

Of course, but the only way for Fox/Hannity to be in legal jeopardy is if they conspired to TrollBuster9090 Jan 2019 #5

still_one

(92,509 posts)

1. I suspect there are several people who work or worked at fox news who just might expose that

Reply to TrollBuster9090 (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 07:33 PM

Jan 2019

It only takes one

TrollBuster9090

(5,955 posts)

2. It'll also come out at the Stone trial, no doubt. nt.

Reply to still_one (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 07:38 PM

Jan 2019

dawg day

(7,947 posts)

3. And Assange just lies

Reply to TrollBuster9090 (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 07:38 PM

Jan 2019

Not that Fox people would care.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

4. Of course...

Reply to TrollBuster9090 (Original post)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 07:40 PM

Jan 2019

Did people already forget there's a direct pipeline between Assange and Hannity, and a pipeline between Hannity and Trump? This is all out in the open already....

TrollBuster9090

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5. Of course, but the only way for Fox/Hannity to be in legal jeopardy is if they conspired to

Reply to Blue_Tires (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 25, 2019, 07:52 PM

Jan 2019

coordinate the effort. If there was no direct communication, and Fox/Hannity simply decided it'd be a great idea to push the disinformation campaign on their own, there wouldn't be any legal jeopardy. But if Stone told Hannity that Assange told him he got the emails from Russia, and then Hannity and Stone discussed possible counter-narratives to spread instead, there would be.

Luckily, Stones phone was probably being tapped by then, and they might have evidence there was coordination. Also, Trump never uses a secure phone, and if the Chinese can tap his conversations, the NSA and the FBI can, too. It's just a question of whether they can use what they heard in court. Most likely not, but again, if one of the parties on that line had a legal warrant to tap their phone, that would be another story. Also, there might have been a legal tap on Hannity's phone by then, given that Cohen was his lawyer, and Mueller might have gone through Cohen's stuff and found evidence that Hannity was laundering dirty Russian money through real estate.

But obviously, yes, there's always been a direct pipeline between Hannity and Trump, and a smaller pipeline between Stone and Trump. The smaller pipeline between Stone and Trump would involve several intermediaries who are probably being squeezed right now. Hope Hicks, Keith Schiller, and a few other small fish were probably the intermediaries, and are probably being squeezed as we speak.

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