by
Caitlin Johnstone
Excuse me,
but at what point during all these protests and identity politics
parades did we forget that the Hillary Clinton campaign hand-picked
Donald Trump to be her Republican opponent? Is anybody going to pause
in the midst of their social media demonstrations of self-righteous
outrage to recall that the Pied Piper email released by WikiLeaks
clearly shows Clinton campaign staff conspiring with the DNC to use
their media leverage to elevate Trump above the other candidates?
Are we at
some point going to take a breath and acknowledge the fact that,
after manipulating the primaries of both parties to ensure a Clinton
vs. Trump ticket, the Hillary campaign then started literally paying
people to make the public terrified of Trump and his supporters, and
that we’re seeing the effects of that fearmongering playing out
right now? Or are we still going to try and blame Berners and bigotry
for this mess that Hillary Clinton and her goons are solely
responsible for creating?
In a memo
attached to the aforementioned document, staff are seen discussing a
plan to “tell the press” to focus on the most extreme candidates
in the Republican primary and take them seriously rather than
marginalize them, in order to hurt the campaigns of the more moderate
candidates with a better chance to win. The candidates they listed,
called “Pied Piper Candidates” in the memo, are Ted Cruz, Ben
Carson, and Donald Trump.
Clearly, as
evidenced by the highly disproportionate amount of coverage he
received in the Republican primaries in comparison to the other
candidates, they went with Donald Trump.
As crazy as
it is that the Clinton campaign is seen sending memos to the
Committee responsible for ensuring unbiased Democratic primaries in
April of 2015, and as shocking as it is to see a candidate’s
campaign staff casually mentioning how they’ll instruct members of
the press on how to cover the candidacies of the opposing party, the
real bombshell when this email came out was the knowledge that the
elites of the Democratic party didn’t just rig their own primary,
they rigged the Republican one as well. They planned to use their
appalling but well-documented amount of leverage over the media to
elevate Trump above all the other candidates in order to undermine
the campaigns of the moderates, and it worked. Trump won as a direct
result of this.
The Clinton
campaign then went to work making sure that the American public is as
terrified of Donald Trump as possible. The staff of the New York
Times (former crown jewel of the Fourth Estate, now shameless
neoliberal shill rag) was shown in another Wikileaks release scheming
with Clinton campaign staff on a “story” (read: full-page
campaign ad) they wanted to do on how Clinton and her supporters view
Donald Trump. In this email, they said the following:
“We’re
told that President Clinton (like Mrs. Clinton and some other Dems)
thinks that Trump would be a formidable opponent in the general
election, and that Dems are in a form of denial if they dismiss Trump
as a joke who would be easily defeated in November. President
Clinton, like others, thinks that Trump has his finger on the pulse
of the electorate’s mood and that only a well-financed, concerted
campaign portrayed [sic] him as dangerous and bigoted will win what
both Clintons believe will be a close November election.”
So we know
they were planning a fear-based campaign from the beginning. But then
you have another sycophantic fake news organization in CNN showing
Van Jones tearfully decrying the fact that children all over the
country are now terrified of the impending Trump presidency.
Of course,
they’re terrified, you monsters! You made them that way! On
purpose!
The Project
Veritas videos feature Democratic operatives telling an undercover
reporter with a hidden camera how they’re paid by the Clinton
campaign to disrupt and instigate violence at Trump rallies in front
of news cameras to help paint Trump supporters as violent. They paid
people to do this.
The
fearmongering campaign of the online shills employed by Clinton super
PAC Correct the Record was even worse because they could circulate
tremendous amounts of disinformation with no accountability
whatsoever. So much of the horror stories that entered into public
perception about the Republican candidate were the product of the
sustained efforts of paid campaigners posing as real Clinton
supporters in online discussion forums, who were able to lie and
deceive and guilt and gaslight with no reason to reign it in or stay
loyal to truth to any extent at all.
The
narrative of Trump and his supporters being dangerous and violent was
the brainchild of neoliberal think tanks and Clinton campaign
officials, who used CTR shills and their sway over the media to
pummel the American psyche with this manufactured propaganda, month
after month after month, about a candidate they hand-picked to oppose
Clinton in the first place. And everyone’s still suffering from
that trauma these disgusting parasites inflicted upon them.
You were
duped, America, and not by Donald Trump. If you’re going to be
outraged, then put your outrage where it belongs.
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