It’s worth starting with @CNN. They brought on James Clapper to call the scoop – confirmed today by Politico – “textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft.” @brianstelter had a program about how it was obviously fake. @apbenven had an “anatomy” of it.
Where’s the follow up, guys? pic.twitter.com/SxMB18Cy7P
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 21, 2021
@MSNBC went all in on this. They had a member of Congress, @CongressmanRaja, on to spread misinformation about it being a “Russian influence operation.”@JoyAnnReid called it a “Russian hatchet-job”@kylegriffin1 said it “appears to contain disinformation”
All lies. pic.twitter.com/S8ZIX4aKJE
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 21, 2021
Might be a good time to update this fact check, @washingtonpost pic.twitter.com/I5AgToXJEk
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 21, 2021
There were a ton of the usual suspects pushing this false narrative. I don’t have room for all of them but I wanted to point out some of the more egregious ones.@joelockhart and @ThePlumLineGS, anything more from you guys? Still convinced it’s Russian disinformation? pic.twitter.com/p9IFZU4DJU
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 21, 2021
And you, @McFaul? Do you still stand by your belief that this is a “hit piece so false that Twitter won’t even post it”? Or might there be something else afoot?
And I suspect @tvietor08 is right that folks haven’t learned the lessons of 2016, just wrong about what the lesson is. pic.twitter.com/V6C1pAxtY1
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 21, 2021
And this from @kurteichenwald is unhinged, even for him. pic.twitter.com/y5LXsXvLcm
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) September 21, 2021