Your response is really sad and shows how drunk you are on right wing disinformation media. Do you know how silly your talking points sound? I know you feel dirty and that's why you'll go to any length to provide cover for that deranged cumquat, but you should be ashamed. History will not remember than man well nor his lapdog supporters and that means you. But you still have a chance to get on the right side of this issue if you adjust your moral compass...
But yeah, not giving that bullshit website clicks. It's sad you read that drivel.
“Just the News”
In the same week that incriminating evidence has been released showing Solomon’s deep role in the Ukranian scandal, Solomon
announced his latest venture, Just the News. Solomon is pitching the outlet as the answer to “the growing need for fact-based, impartial news and compelling digital content” that will feature “fact-based news without an agenda, with a neutral voice and with unprecedented transparency.” In reality, readers should expect anything but.
Solomon began his career as a mainstream reporter and has leveraged that experience to provide him cover for the decades of right-wing propaganda he has advanced since. A 2012 Columbia Journalism Review profile
noted that
“Solomon has a history of bending the truth to his storyline” and that he “was notorious for massaging facts to conjure phantom scandals.”
And “conjure phantom scandals” he does. For instance, prior to his involvement in the Ukraine disinformation campaign, Solomon was a key player in advancing the
manufactured Uranium One scandal, another thoroughly debunked and discredited conspiracy theory that was first deployed to damage Clinton’s 2016 presidential election campaign.
Solomon revived and revised the conspiracy theory in 2017 -- when Trump needed an assist in his efforts to discredit the Mueller investigation -- by reporting without evidence that “Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation” when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state as part of a scheme to ensure the Uranium One deal’s success. He suggested that Mueller, as FBI director, had covered up Russia’s attempt to bribe the Clintons. In November 2017, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed U.S. Attorney John Huber to investigate, and The Washington Post recently
reported that Huber is winding down his two-year review without bringing any criminal charges or finding any “other known impacts.”
While Solomon was at Circa in 2016-2017 -- and continuing into his time at The Hill -- he emerged as a key figure on Hannity’s Fox show. Circa under Solomon
fueled Hannity’s show with pro-Trump stories on a nightly basis. It was during this stretch, all the way into 2019, that Hannity was working to
spin a counternarrative to the charges of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Solomon’s “slanted reporting” was a fundamental part of Hannity’s conspiracy theories.
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