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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsW. Post, Former Fox host: 'There is indeed a witch hunt and it's led by Fox against Robert Mueller
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-i-left-fox-news/2018/03/30/d1224648-32bb-11e8-8bdd-cdb33a5eef83_story.html?utm_term=.b9eb80692015I was the one person on the Fox payroll who, trained in Russian studies and the Russian language, had been face to face with Russian intelligence officers in the Kremlin and in far-flung provinces. I have traveled widely in and written extensively about the region. Yet I could only rarely and briefly comment on the paramount security question of our time: whether Putin and his security services ensnared the man who would become our president. Trumps behavior patterns and evident weaknesses (financial entanglements, lack of self-control and sense of sexual entitlement) would have made him an ideal blackmail target and the Russian security apparatus plays a long game.
As indictments piled up, though, I could not even discuss the mechanics of how the Russians work on either Fox News or Fox Business. [...]
All Americans, whatever their politics, should want to know, with certainty, whether a hostile power has our president and those close to him in thrall. This isnt about party but about our security at the most profound level. Every so often, I could work in a comment on the air, but even the best-disposed hosts were wary of transgressing the party line.
Fox never tried to put words in my mouth, nor was I told explicitly that I was taboo on Trump-Putin matters. I simply was no longer called on for topics central to my expertise. I was relegated to Groundhog Day analysis of North Korea and the Middle East, or to Russia-related news that didnt touch the administration. Listening to political hacks with no knowledge of things Russian tell the vast Fox audience that the special counsels investigation was a witch hunt, while I could not respond, became too much to bear. There is indeed a witch hunt, and its led by Fox against Robert Mueller.
dalton99a
(81,543 posts)Botany
(70,539 posts)With my Soviet-studies background, the cult of Trump unnerves me. For our societys health, no one,
not even a president, can be above criticism or the law.
******
I might be wrong but I have no doubt that Russia/Putin has people or information channels
directly into the heart of Fox News. They are a cancer on my nation.
dalton99a
(81,543 posts)Botany
(70,539 posts).... hang out w/her BFF, Wendi Deng aka the former Mrs. Rupert Murdoch aka
Vlad Putin's gal pal. This is the largest criminal syndicate in the history of the
world and it put Trump into the White House.
dalton99a
(81,543 posts)Source: Ivanka Trump/Instagram
Botany
(70,539 posts)I bet I could pay all my bills for 2 months for the cost of Ivanka's purse.
And if I remember right Croatia was the home to lots of Putin's bot troops.
murielm99
(30,753 posts)I could be wrong. But I would not want to leave my children to do this, no matter what my politics.
Botany
(70,539 posts)@ least 5 months @ time of picture.
BTW don't you know that "the help" takes care of the kids?
The other two children were 5 & 3 @ the time.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)but anyone with the least bit of reasoning ability can see that's the case.
cilla4progress
(24,756 posts)Whats it going to take to take them down.
Botany
(70,539 posts).... them that you demand that a good American called Bob Mueller be
protected.
roscoeroscoe
(1,370 posts)Great to see this gentleman exposing Fox.
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)They are the bullies and liars of America and the destruction of our Democracy must be stopped. Free speech doesn't mean you have to support them. Without the advertisers Fox would eventually fade away to maybe be replaced by a more sane, more intelligent group with principles and integrity.