Not to say that other politicians don't lie or distort the truth, but Trump has taken this to a whole other level.
The issue here is the top-down astroturfing from state-sponsored orgs whose boards are the last x heads of the CIA/etc.
At the moment there is no strong firewall between private polticial organisation, and state power, within the USA. You may think that's fine if its being used against trump, but it isnt.
Not least, since the example the AC gave in that video was trump tweeting "witch hunt" about the russia investigation -- calling this disinformation. Now, who was right? Trump. There was no Trump-Russia conspiracy, it was a witch hunt.
The only thing the muller report found was trump obstructed the investigation, it completely exonerated any supposed connections to russia. Then you might ask: where did all these intelligence dossiers come from?
And why is the atlantic council training journalists to label trumps poltical speech about this investigation as disinformation? (HINT: to enable its censorship etc.)
It did not exonerate him, quite explicitly. [1] The report found a lot of evidence of trump team making contact with Russians. You say yourself that the investigation was obstructed.
There was also this indictment on co-ordinated Russian funded interference in NA pundit/social media space. [2] Not to mention similar groups (I'm not sure about the status of the investigation in [2] at this point) have already been dismissed [3].
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49100778
[2] https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/two-rt-employees-ind...
[3] https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293521/foreign-influen...
We know today that the 2016 Trump Campaign:
- Had over 100 meetings with Russian officials, lied and said they had 0
- Amplified information hacked by Russia, implored for more publicly
- Met with Russian spy at Trump's home to discuss relaxed relations in return for dirt on Clinton, later lied about the existence of that meeting
- Shared internal campaign polling data with a Russian intel officer.
These facts are not in dispute by anyone, and are presented in the Mueller Report, and the Senate Intel Committee Report on Russian Active Measures. From Wikipedia:
The Senate Intelligence Committee assessed that Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's "high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services" was a "grave counterintelligence threat".[50] The foremost individual was Manafort's employee Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian.[50] The committee identified Kilimnik as a "Russian intelligence officer"; describing that Manafort and Kilimnik had a "close and lasting relationship" even through the 2016 election.[53] Manafort repeatedly tried to "secretly share internal Campaign information with Kilimnik", including "sensitive internal polling data or Campaign strategy".[53]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Intelligence_Committee_...
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/report-sele...