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Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security, was confronted on Sunday about his agency’s Disinformation Board. He was asked point blank about the Russian disinformation that former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton weaponized to sway the 2016 election.
The Steele Dossier, a collection of the seedy rumors that were circulating in Russia about Donald Trump, now proven to be baseless after the comprehensive Mueller investigation, was referenced by Fox News anchor Bret Baier in his interview of Mayorkas on Sunday. Watch:
“Was the Steele Dossier Russian disinformation?” Baier Asked Mayorkas.
“It’s not for me to opine on that,” the DHS Secretary replied.
However, the Inspector General’s report on FBI misconduct showed that the Steele Dossier contained likely Russian disinformation. This is information based on an official government document.
“The FBI came to believe that the Steele Dossier contained at least two false statements that can be traced to an elaborate Russian disinformation campaign, newly unredacted Justice Department report footnotes revealed Friday — but the agency continued to rely on the controversial document as it investigated the 2016 Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia,” the New York Post reported on April 11, 2020.
“The declassified footnotes are from the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s previously released report on FBI misconduct,” the report added. “The revelation — that the FBI believed dossier author and former British spy Christopher Steele relied in part on manipulated falsehoods — was met with ire by two senators who had pushed for declassification.”
Nonetheless, the Department of Homeland Security has not commented on perhaps the most egregious case of a foreign disinformation campaign carried out in modern times — and one directly tied to a former U.S. presidential candidate who has never been the subject of an official government investigation over the affair.“It’s ironic that the Russian collusion narrative was fatally flawed because […]
Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
Thank you, and God Bless!
JD Rucker