On Wednesday Cliff Sims posted a Twitter thread that is a perfect example of how “journalists” lie to push the left-wing agenda, despite having the facts handed to them on a silver platter.
Sims was the Deputy Director of National Intelligence (DNI) for Strategy and Communications in 2020, and he had an exchange with Politico’s White House Natasha Bertrand that proved without equivocation that she started out with the intention of pushing the Democrat’s needed foreign policy narrative, and no amount of facts or proof would deter her from recasting the story to reflect the ideas Democrats wanted to push.
Bertrand started out with the lie that the Hunter Biden laptop story was “Russian disinformation” and facts did not matter. Every time Sims gave her the evidence, she engaged in shady trickery to turn the facts into mere “claims” and then buttressed the Democrat’s lie that the laptop story was fake news.
Check out how the story went down in Sims’ series of Tweets:
Want to know what it's like to deal with some journalists who "cover" the Intel and NatSec communities at the highest level, but actually serve more like mouthpieces of the permanent security state?
Here's a story about how wrong they can be without consequences.
Thread…
— Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) December 15, 2022
Oct. 16: @RepAdamSchiff suggest the laptop might be a part of a Russian effort to "smear" Biden.
Oct. 19: @JohnRatcliffe says there's NO intel to support Schiff's lie.
The press played it like it was a "battle." History has proven who was a liar & "politicized" their position. pic.twitter.com/6mQGijQ06R
— Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) December 15, 2022
Oct. 27: @JohnRatcliffe warns the country in a primetime press conference that several foreign countries were seeking to influence the 2020 election.
Among those countries was Iran, whom Ratcliffe accurately noted was seeking to “damage President Trump."
— Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) December 15, 2022
1. The intelligence was clear about Iran's intention to hurt Trump. The country's top counter-intel official had even called them out publicly months before. Here's his statement from Aug. 7, 2020, relaying the Intelligence Community's assessment of what Iran was up to. pic.twitter.com/UZHfpU2FAp
— Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) December 15, 2022
At this point I took the rare step of asking to speak to her editor, who was @blakehounshell, before the story published.
I explained to Blake what I outlined above, and reminded him that @NatashaBertrand had also been wrong about the Biden laptop.
It got a little heated…
— Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) December 15, 2022
March 2021, Biden's own Office of the DNI released the Intelligence Community's Assessment of foreign threats to the 2020 election.
As I'd told @NatashaBertrand and @blakehounshell back in 2020, they assessed that Iran sought to hurt Trump.
Proven right, again. pic.twitter.com/iHAAuBK7xq
— Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) December 15, 2022
Of course, we now know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the laptop actually was Hunter Biden’s and that everything on it is 100% real. And all the claims from the leftist press and their masters in the Democrat Party were lies.
Anyway, this thread is the most perfect example of how the media is 100 percent made up of liars, thieves, placemen, and patsies.
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