I had to share thisd tory from #SusanGlasser ‘s new #VanityFair column!

“ I was reminded of this when I received a call from #FionaHill, the top National Security Council aide on Russia for much of Trump’s Presidency. Hill told me that she was stunned by how similar Vance’s defiant embrace of the radicalizing power of stories, whether true or not, was to the views advanced by Vladimir Putin’s chief international propagandist, the Russia state-television personality Margarita Simonyan: So what, in effect, if we make stuff up? “I was just really struck: RT and VT—Vance-Trump—are the same,” she said. “It’s the same weaponization of migration and disinformation.”

The episode recalled for Hill an incident early in Trump’s Presidency, in November of 2017, when Trump tweeted out several inflammatory videos from a British far-right group purporting to show attacks carried out by Muslim immigrants. British officials contacted Hill, urging her to get the White House to have Trump pull down his tweets and disavow them. But, she said, when she brought the concerns to the White House press staff, which was then run by the current governor of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, she was rebuffed. Hill was told that Trump was simply using the videos to further his domestic political agenda. When Sanders was then asked about the tweets by reporters, her response was an uncanny preview of Vance’s recent remarks: “Whether it’s a real video,” she said, “the threat is real.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/trump-is-not-pivoting-to-policy-now-or-ever

Peter Baker and Susan Glasser made a shit ton of money off the first *rump administration and they’re determined to do it again. If Biden drops out they will attack any successor just as relentlessly. They are vile people.

Michelle Wolf was 100% right:
“You guys are obsessed with Trump. Did you used to date him? Because you pretend like you hate him, but I think you love him. I think what no one in this room wants to admit is that Trump has helped all of you. He couldn’t sell steaks or vodka or water or college or ties or Eric, but he has helped you. He’s helped you sell your papers and your books and your TV. You helped create this monster, and now you’re profiting off of him. If you’re going to profit off of Trump, you should at least give him some money, because he doesn’t have any.”

#PeterBaker #SusanGlasser #NewYorkTimes #NYT #Journalism

#Trump’s #Unhinged #Eruptions in #Ohio Should #LightaFire Under the #Media!

#Veteran #journalist #SusanGlasser on why #Trump’s #authoritarian #language is so #alarming—and how the #press is struggling to meet the challenges of this uniquely #dangerous #moment.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Ohio #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://newrepublic.com/article/179882/trump-bloodbath-rant-ohio-media

#MSNBC You need to see how much worse #Trump is now: Glasser

For most Americans, the best way to deal with Donald Trump is to ignore him, starve him of the attention he craves. But after watching a recent two-hour Trump rally speech, #SusanGlasser, staff writer for #TheNewYorker, cautions that ignoring Trump gives him the benefit of people not noticing that he is darker, more deranged and more diminished than ever.

https://youtu.be/6Mty1g8md5A?si=I1GEjyanFt_muPE2

New episode from #SusanGlasser #JaneMayer #EvanOsnos on #Biden #SOTU .

“He wasn’t looking to convince anybody,” Glasser says. “What he was looking to do was to tell his side, ‘Stop freaking out. I’m in the fight.’ ”

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-political-scene-the-new-yorker/id268213039?i=1000648548496