"The Invention of the Conspiracy Theory on Biden and Ukraine"
"How a conservative dark-money group that targeted Hillary Clinton in 2016 spread the discredited story that may lead to Donald Trump’s impeachment."
"Anyone trying to track the Ukrainian conspiracy stories that were eventually embraced by President Trump is likely to get mired in the same echo chamber of right-wing news purveyors that misinformed voters in 2016. A pivotal source of the allegations against the Bidens is the Government Accountability Institute, a Florida-based opposition-research operation that was founded by the former Trump political adviser Stephen Bannon"
"In both instances, much of the coverage of the scandal was kicked off by Peter Schweizer, a longtime conservative political writer who is an editor-at-large at Breitbart News and the president of the Government Accountability Institute. Since its founding, in 2012, the group has largely been funded with millions of dollars in tax-exempt donations from the family foundation of the New York hedge-fund magnate Robert Mercer, who was a major donor to Trump’s 2016 campaign."
"Asked about the Government Accountability Institute’s role in this year’s Biden scandal coverage, Bannon e-mailed to say, “It’s key. It was the predicate,” as it had been for much of the previous Clinton scandal coverage."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-...en-and-ukraine
Good read, outlines an orchestrated effort to perpetuate falsehoods they thought would aid Trump in 2020 just as similar conspiracies did in 2016
Interesting how going back to 2004 with the Texan Soup Boat group the right has all these covert entities manufacturing inneundos they easily get echoed throughout the right wing media. This time they have a candidate who could care less about honesty and integrity, plus a choir who will eagerly believe anything that tells them what they want to hear
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