Министерство трампоганды

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Трудно переоценить масштаб пропагандистских усилий, брошенных на защиту Трампа, в том числе от Рашагейта. Со временем усилия не утихают, а нарастают, а пропаганда консолидируется.

Консервативный сайт RedState позволял себе критиковать Трампа как до, так и после выборов. Больше такого не терпят - сайт был жестко зачищен от критиков.

Like GOP politicians, conservative commentators feel constant pressure to take it easy on Trump. Many pundits I used to respect have become rabid Trump supporters, excoriating federal law enforcement on the flimsiest of evidence, and defending Trump's pals, like the murderous and dictatorial Vladimir Putin. RedState was one of the few places on the internet where a sizable group of us rejected such nonsense. But no more. Of course Salem Media Group has the absolute legal right to fire writers. But this obvious purge sends a chilling message: Vigorous criticism of the president will no longer be tolerated.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-frey-redstate-20180427-story.html



Некогда один из самых популярных ведущих на Fox News, а ныне маргинал Гленн Бек тоже позволял себе критику Трампа и даже временно скорешился на этой почве с Самантой Би.

Beck then took Bee to task for adopting “a lot of my catastrophe traits,” insinuating that she, like many of her fellow left-leaning political satirists, has a tendency to overstate the direness of things, turning the volume up to 11 on even the most minor transgressions.
“Do you believe there’s a chance we fall into a dictatorship under Donald Trump?” asked Beck. “Do you believe there’s a chance we lose our freedom of speech and press under this president?”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/samantha-bee-and-glenn-beck-unite-over-trump-its-all-of-us-against-trumpism

Неизвестно, что Бек думает про свободу прессы сейчас, но ныне он перековался, встал на путь исправления, нацепил MAGA кепку и хвалит Трампа за то, что тот безукоризненно исполняет все свои обещания: “He has taken massive steps, massive movement or completed each of those promises … I am blown away."



Но главным локомотивом поезда трампоганды остается Шон Хэннити, который удостаивается бесед с вождем каждый божий день.

Their chats begin casually, with How are yous and What’s going ons. On some days, they speak multiple times, with one calling the other to inform him of the latest developments. White House staff are aware that the calls happen, thanks to the president entering a room and announcing, “I just hung up with Hannity,” or referring to what Hannity said during their conversations, or even ringing Hannity up from his desk in their presence.
https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/sean-hannity-donald-trump-late-night-calls.html

Именно к Хэннити, которого он недавно назвал своим третьим клиентом, приходил Майкл Коэн открещиваться от информации в досье Стила. С тех пор Хэннити превратил борьбу с расследованием Рашагейта в смысл своего существования.



Our study, building on our earlier reviews of the program’s coverage of the Trump-Russia saga, found that of the 487 Hannity segments about the Mueller probe:
256 segments -- a whopping 53 percent -- included criticism of the media’s coverage of the Mueller investigation, which Hannity and his guests consider excessively anti-Trump.
191 segments included commentators suggesting that there had been no collusion between Trump or his associates and Russia.
82 segments feature attempts to construct a counternarrative by claiming that the real collusion had been between Russia and Democrats. This is often a reference to the Uranium One pseudoscandal, which was referenced in 38 percent of all segments about the Mueller investigation.
25 segments involved commentators downplaying reporting about Trump and his associates by saying that collusion is not a crime.
81 segments described Mueller’s probe as a “witch hunt,” while 140 included criticism of purported “conflicts of interest” involving members of his team.
67 segments included suggestions that Mueller should resign, recuse himself, be fired, or otherwise end the investigation. 41 suggested that Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general overseeing the probe, should do so.
186 segments -- nearly 38 percent of the total -- claimed top federal law enforcement officials involved in the creation of the probe had broken the law.
218 segments -- 45 percent of the total -- featured Hannity or his guests saying Hillary Clinton had committed crimes.
77 segments included a call for the appointment of a second special counsel to investigate Trump’s political enemies.
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/05/23/study-sean-hannity-spent-last-year-laying-groundwork-authoritarian-response-russia-probe/220281

Сегодня Трамп в Твиттер оживил свое любимое выражение "Russia hoax". Человек, который не постеснялся написать на основе этого выражения целую книжку ("The Russia Hoax : The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump") - Грегг Джарретт, самый частый и любимый гость на программе у Хэннити, адвокат по образованию.



Из 487 передач Хэннити про расследование Мюллера, Джарретт участвовал в 121 (каждой четвертой).

Обсуждая, как агенты ФБР пришли с ордером на обыск к Манафорту, Джарретт устроил истерику, утверждая, что ФБР теперь превратилось в КГБ и собирается хватать всех подряд.

GREGG JARRETT, FOX NEWS LEGAL ANALYST: I think we now know that the Mueller investigation is illegitimate and corrupt. And Mueller has been using the FBI as a political weapon. And the FBI has become America's secret police. Secret surveillance, wiretapping, intimidation, harassment and threats. It's like the old KGB that comes for you in the dark of the night banging through your door.
HANNITY: By the way, this is not a game. This is not hyperbole you are using here.
JARRETT: No. Ask Paul Manafort, they came for him and broke through his front door.
HANNITY: And if it can happen to him, Gregg.
JARRETT: It can happen to all of us. Absolutely. The FBI is a shadow government now.
http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2017/12/06/gop-lawmakers-call-out-double-standards-within-fbi.html

Впрочем, в том, что ФБР может однажды придти к нему с Хэннити, они, может быть, и прав.