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Trump would have used words like “losers” and much worse to define the fallen of the war. The developer of the phrases is Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic, who claims to have received information from anonymous sources. The president reacted angrily, brandishing everything as defamation.
More than likely, given that even a drunk wouldn’t speak such nonsense, the misinformation is rampant. It’s a smart bullet that seeks to undermine Trump’s great consensus in the military.
To unmask the perverse mechanism of the story, now abused, is The Intercept, a site that cannot be accused of Trumpian sympathies, in fact.
The mechanism is simple and recalls what already happened with the media campaign aimed at demonstrating a link between Trump and Wikileaks in 2016, when the digital organization flooded the web with files that were particularly embarrassing for the previous administration.
Email from Trump Jr.
The scoop was made by CNN, in a spectacular report in which the “smoking gun” of the improper report was made known to the world.
The report revealed that “Trump Jr. on September 4 received an email with a secret encryption key that access advanced to the WikiLeaks servers containing the Democratic Party emails, which the group would publish only 10 days later. “
When breaking the news, CNN reporters showed all their horror, feelings that, along with the incredible news, were shared by viewers. Angry denials on the part of the guilty were worthless.
Also because immediately after the news was confirmed by other media, MSNBC and CBS News. In fact, the alleged journalists of these networks revealed that they had received authorized confirmations of the news from anonymous and independent sources, that is, other than those of CNN.
Too bad it was later discovered that the email was dated September 14th and was from a web user who, after reading what was posted by wikileaks, had reported its content to Trump Jr. No conspiracy, therefore , a trivial report.
The Intercept explains how to date CNN and the other networks involved in Fake have “reviewed” the news of the time, but not only did they not admit the glaring error, but also guaranteed that sources and journalists were “in good faith.”
What is happening now with Trump’s prayers, according to the Intercept, reminds us of that dark story. Trump’s infamous phrases are confirmed by other means, which in turn have been drawn from “independent” sources.
A media game that is played often, explains Intercept, using the same anonymous sources, which, after dropping their bombs, relaunch them to other media, identifying themselves as sources other than the first.
Therefore, the use of the “Confirmed“That is, the so-called fact-checking by the media can also serve to give substance to a hoax that would otherwise evaporate,” explains Intercept.
But unlike the Trump Jr. Fake, the current one is more sophisticated: it is based on spoken or unspoken words, so it is impossible to find a document that categorically denies it …
Goldberg and the Iraq war
If we have given space to the story, it is not only to mark the battle that is being fought in the United States, but also because it reveals a fairly common media mechanism.
Not only that, it should be noted that a known reporter in history is the one who sets the powder on fire in this media campaign.
In March 2002, Goldberg wrote a well-documented article on Saddam Hussein’s threat to the world. In the long article for the New Yorker (title: “The great terror”) he documented the close relations between the Baghdad rais and the terrorist group Al Qaeda.
It also illustrated with alarm the impressive capabilities of Iraq’s “offensive biological, chemical and nuclear weapons”.
“Your scientists – he detailed – have certainly produced and used anthrax and have manufactured botulinum toxin, which causes muscle paralysis and death. They produced the Clostridium perfringens , a bacteria that causes gas gangrene, which causes meat to rot. They also produced a pathogen that attacks wheat, which can be used to poison crops, and ricin, which, once absorbed through the lungs, causes hemorrhagic pneumonia. “
Furthermore, “nearly four tons of the nerve agent were packed into Iraq. VX; six hundred tons of ingredients for VX; and up to three thousand tons of other poisonous agents; and at least five hundred and fifty artillery shells filled with sarin gas ”.
And alarmed: “Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction are clearly not intended solely for internal use.” In fact, “there is no question what Saddam could do with an atomic bomb or with his stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons.”
It goes without saying that postwar investigations found nothing, neither of those weapons nor of relations with Al Qaeda. But by now the disaster had struck … the Iraqi people, including the Kurds, whose hearts were “filled with hope” by George Bush’s words against Saddam and who had put the portrait of Dick Cheney on the walls, were now meat for slaughter. Such is the carnage of the war, which runs parallel to that of the media.
In other notes we wrote that the areas fueling the never-ending war oppose Trump. Goldberg’s “signature” on this matter confirms this. Confirmed, in fact.
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