Matt Taibbi: Joe Scarborough Wouldn’t Be Talking About the Russiagate Story If It Didn’t Have a Trump Angle

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TAIBBI: “Because the utility of this story, you know, as a propaganda vehicle, is entirely designed. It’s aimed at Donald Trump squarely. This story would not be in the news, you wouldn’t have every network covering it, you wouldn’t have Joe Scarborough doing rants about it if it didn’t have a Donald Trump angle to it. And this has been true since the very first time they unveiled this story way back in 2016. We’ve seen so many iterations of the same theme, and every time it turns out to be less than meets the eye or a hoax, like I discovered with the Hamilton 68 site, in the Twitter Files, or the Steele Dossier. So, you know, we’ll find out. But this idea that there’s this ongoing, relentless, massive, organized campaign by Russia to get Donald Trump elected is just a phony story. This might be a real story, but it’s not a big story. Not yet, anyway.”