Former President Donald Trump speaks during the American Freedom Tour at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas, on May 14, 2022. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

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Trump Asks ‘Where Do I Get My Reputation Back?’ After Revealing Testimony From Clinton Campaign Manager

By Eva Fu May 21, 2022 Updated: May 22, 2022

(This picture and article makes me sad)

Former President Donald Trump called the Russia probe against him “one of the greatest political scandals in history” after a May 20 testimony revealed that Hillary Clinton had given the approval to disseminate the claims linking him to a Russian bank.

“This is one of the greatest political scandals in history,” Trump told Fox News on Saturday. “For three years, I had to fight her off, and fight those crooked people off, and you’ll never get your reputation fully back.”

“Where do I get my reputation back?”

Trump said that the resources poured into finding whether he and members of his campaign had worked with Russia to meddle with the 2016 election had diverted attention on what “could have been a real danger with Russia.”

Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, told a federal court on Friday that he was first briefed about the allegations of a purported secret back channel between Trump’s business and Russia’s Alfa Bank by Clinton campaign’s top lawyer Marc Elias.

The campaign didn’t immediately act on the allegations for fear they weren’t credible, he said, noting that the campaign officials lacked the subject matter expertise to assess the claims. When the group decided to share the information with the media, Mook ran it by Clinton.

“We told her we have this and we want to share it with a reporter. She agreed to that,” he said. He said he couldn’t remember when Clinton gave the green light. “All I can remember is she agreed with the decision. She thought we made the right decision.”

Despite not being “totally confident” in the allegations, the campaign staffer later passed information to a reporter, who they expected would vet the information.

“Our hope was they were going to run it down, that it would be substantive, and accurate,” said Mook.

Slate published a story on Oct. 31, 2016, and Clinton highlighted it in a post on Twitter later that evening.

“Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank,” she wrote.

Michael Sussmann, a former Clinton campaign attorney, had separately handed over a thumb drive and white papers supporting the Trump-Russia allegations to the federal intelligence agency.

Former FBI general counsel James Baker, a central player in the Russia investigations, said he would have acted differntly if he knew Trump’s opponent was behind the claims. He said he likely would not have met with Sussmann if he knew he was acting on behalf of the Clinton campaign.

It “would have raised very serious questions, certainly, about the credibility of the source” and the “veracity of the information,” Baker, who is now working as Twitter’s deputy general counsel, said in a federal court testimony on Thursday. It would also have raised “a substantial concern in my mind about whether we were going to be played,” he added.

Sussmann has been accused of lying to the FBI for telling Baker he wasn’t working for any client when he presented the allegations to the agency.

Both Elias and Mook said Sussmann acted without obtaining the campaign’s prior permission.

Asked if Clinton had approved Sussmann’s meeting with the FBI, Mook replied that he was “not aware.”

“I don’t know why” she would do so, he said when questioned a second time.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-after-testimony-shows-clinton-behind-russia-allegations-against-him-where-do-i-get-my-reputation-back_4482068.html

https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1528788422663577600?s=20&t=G0Ej7LDfr9lDkWiwnGXPuQ

Parents showed up to school board meetings demanding accountability for their children's education, including speaking up against closures and the politicization of classrooms…and the NSBA wanted to send in the military.

The reputation of this organization is unsalvageable.https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1528735491457171456?s=20&t=G0Ej7LDfr9lDkWiwnGXPuQ

https://twitter.com/michelepexner/status/1528786797127421953?s=20&t=G0Ej7LDfr9lDkWiwnGXPuQ

Busted: Disinformation Operative Who Attacked Elon Musk’s Push for “Free Speech” Caught Red-Handed in Secret Influence OperationMay 23, 2022 (13h ago)

It is not yet clear whether Elon Musk’s increasingly precarious play for Twitter will result in the restoration of free speech in the “global public square.” Successful or not, Elon’s brave move has clarified beyond any doubt the Regime’s fundamental hostility to free speech and dissent. Judging from the critical reactions from journalists, NGOs and Democrat politicians, you’d think the man were attempting to invade Poland rather than remove censorship on a social media platform.

Of all the regime scribblers and scribes flooding the internet with glorified blog posts on the awfulness of Elon Musk’s Twitter bid, a piece by Renée DiResta published in the Atlantic stands out from the rest — not because of its force of argument, but because of the largely forgotten scandal behind its author.

Like the now disgraced and jobless Nina Jankowicz,DiResta is a career-girl of the Disinformation Industry— a constellation of NATO and US State Department-funded NGOs and civil society groups that censor inconvenient truths, facts and narratives under the guise of protecting the public from so-called “disinformation.” And like Nina Jankowicz, it turns out that DiResta’s name is closely associated with one of the most explosive and aggressively covered-up influence operations of the century.

__Renée DiResta — Disinformation Industry Operative (picture above)__With that teaser in place, let’s start at the beginning with DiResta’s piece on Musk and Twitter. We invite the impatient reader to scroll down to DiResta’s scandal — but it’s worth the wait for those with more patience.

Like most well-trained operatives of the disinformation industry, Renée is smart enough to couch her defense of Twitter’s censorship in layers of obfuscatory verbiage and heavily qualified lip service to the importance of free-expression. We should remember that even the Department of Homeland Security assured us in a hilarious “fact sheet” that its ill-fated Disinformation Governance Board is set up to defend free speech.

But anything more than a cursory look at Diresta’s “concerned” reaction to Musk and his cadre of “free-speech absolutists” completely betrays her true agenda. Here she is scribbling away in the Atlantic (emphasis ours):

The idea of Twitter as the “global town square” was articulated by then-CEO Dick Costolo in 2013. He likened it to something from ancient Athens:Thousands of years ago in the Greek Agora, that’s where you went to find out what was going on and talk about it, right?

The unintended consequences of the platform that Jack Dorsey and his co-founders built, however, came into rather stark relief as it grew via unfettered virality and velocity. The Islamic State made a home on the platform; harassment mobs proliferated; state actors and conspiracy theorists alike recognized that Twitter was a remarkable venue for propagandizing, unmediated, to millions.

How could the company maximize freedom of expression while minimizing the unique harms that the new communication infrastructure had enabled? [The Atlantic] Let’s put aside DiResta’s daft use of the passive voice for a moment and take a second to appreciate how radical this passage is. The author just lumped in terrorist propaganda — specifically, ISIS propaganda — with Covid skepticism and skepticism pertaining to election integrity. Given that this is the Regime’s perspective, it is much easier to understand not only why something like the Disinformation Governance Board would exist in the first place, but why it would be housed within the Department of Homeland Security — one of the largest national security bureaucracies set up in the aftermath of 9/11 to protect the nation from terrorism.

If Covid skeptics, election skeptics, and by extension nearly half of America can be lumped in with ISIS on the basis of their political beliefs, it makes sense that the national security bureaucracy would be turned inward in order to crush the ISIS-level national security threat of Americans who oppose vaccine mandates or, God forbid, don’t think the 2020 election was fair. As we pointed out in earlier pieces, the Disinformation Industry is assigned to carry out the information warfare component of this domestic war on terror — to silence important speech on important matters central to democratic deliberation under the guise of “Defending Democracy against Disinformation.”

Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation…

https://www.revolver.news/2022/05/busted-disinformation-operative-renee-diresta-integrity-initiative-free-speech-elon-musk-george-soros/

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FROM THE ARTICLE: BUSTED DISINFORMATION…. below are some of the organizations involved in disinformation or propaganda, from the articles.

Anons pay attention to this article

Incidentally, the Integrity Initiative leaks included a list of NGOs and media outlets deemed to be friendly to its operations. One of the organizations deemed to be friendly to and in close collaboration with the Integrity Initiative is a group called the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). 1st attachment

Take a wild guess who is the President and CEO of CEPA? If you guessed Alina Polyakova, you would be correct! Yes… the same Alina Polyakova who in the video clip above performatively condemns DiResta’s Alabama influence operation is the President and CEO of an organization revealed in leaked documents to be “partnering with” the Integrity Initiative, one of the most scandalous influence operations in our nation’s history!

Perhaps this is why Alina Polyakova and her colleague and co-author Ambassador Dan Fried are comfortable citing DiResta’s work in their aforementioned “Democratic Offense Against Disinformation” report.

In fact, CEPA co-sponsored that very same report: 2nd attachment

While DiResta is too coy to mention Revolver News directly in the link above, the Stanford University Election Integrity Partnership report that DiResta co-authored mentioned Revolver News and Revolver News’s very own Darren Beattie extensively: 3rd attachment

Perhaps even more remarkable is the fact that DiResta’s work is cited in an official Department of Homeland Security memo on “combatting targeted disinformation campaigns.” 4th attachment

She wrote this book for Harvard

PROPAGANDA

COMPUTATIONAL PROPAGANDA: IF YOU MAKE IT TREND, YOU MAKE IT TRUE

RENEE DiRESTA

First published: 12 October 2018

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/yrev.13402

Read the whole article, very important

https://www.revolver.news/2022/05/busted-disinformation-operative-renee-diresta-integrity-initiative-free-speech-elon-musk-george-soros/