https://theintercept.com/2019/10/23/trump-bill-taylor-ukraine-president-cnn/
“Before agreeing to release nearly $400 million in military assistance to Ukraine, President Donald Trump extorted a promise from his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, to appear on American television and act out a script prepared for him by Trump’s aides, the top American diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, told the House impeachment inquiry on Tuesday.
The scene a desperate Zelensky finally agreed to perform would have been the very definition of fake news: a dramatic announcement by the Ukrainian president, during a CNN interview, that he was opening criminal investigations on Joe Biden’s family and other Democrats.
The plot, which would have duped American voters into believing that there was some substance to adebunked conspiracy theory about Biden’s work in Ukraine as vice president, came very close to working.”
“It’s called legitimizing propaganda,” she observed on Twitter, after Taylor revealed the plot to place Zelensky on CNN. “You place the information you want people to believe in what appears to be an independent source unconnected to you. Then you can cite it as further ‘evidence’ of your own claims, making them appear more credible.”
“Before agreeing to release nearly $400 million in military assistance to Ukraine, President Donald Trump extorted a promise from his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, to appear on American television and act out a script prepared for him by Trump’s aides, the top American diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, told the House impeachment inquiry on Tuesday.
The scene a desperate Zelensky finally agreed to perform would have been the very definition of fake news: a dramatic announcement by the Ukrainian president, during a CNN interview, that he was opening criminal investigations on Joe Biden’s family and other Democrats.
The plot, which would have duped American voters into believing that there was some substance to adebunked conspiracy theory about Biden’s work in Ukraine as vice president, came very close to working.”
“It’s called legitimizing propaganda,” she observed on Twitter, after Taylor revealed the plot to place Zelensky on CNN. “You place the information you want people to believe in what appears to be an independent source unconnected to you. Then you can cite it as further ‘evidence’ of your own claims, making them appear more credible.”
