Aaron Maté is a contributor at The Nation. We mention this because he’s not someone you would traditionally think of as being a part of the right-wing media and in fact, if you go to The Nation’s Twitter page it says, “The place for debate on the left.”
And whoa nelly, Aaron is definitely ‘debating’ on the Left with this thread about Rachel Maddow and her Trump-Russia conspiracy theories.
1/ If YouTube were to recommend your show, it'd be recommending the leading purveyor of now debunked Trump-Russia conspiracy theories, falsehoods & innuendo of the last 2+ years. Here's a sample:
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
Notice, he is responding TO HER for this entire thread.
2/ Just recently you were caught in real-time lying to your audience. You claimed Barr was handling the redactions by himself. But the chyron — on screen right below — told viewers the truth, that Mueller was in fact "assisting" w/ the redactions: pic.twitter.com/rTSAABngp2
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
Here, have some of our popcorn, this just gets better.
3/ There was that time in Jan 2017 when you speculated that Putin may use the pee tape & other kompromat to force Trump into withdrawing US troops near Russia. How did that one turn out? pic.twitter.com/XuXXagyCNb
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
About as good as the other Russian conspiracies she’s been pushing.
4/ BTW, just last week you falsely said that "the one thing I refused to let myself think about" was that Putin had tapes of Trump — the very prospect you had previously floated to posit that Putin may blackmail Trump into withdrawing troops. pic.twitter.com/xMC4uPrjSK
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
Yikes.
5/ Who could forget that time this past winter when you seized on life-threatening cold temperatures to fear-monger that Russia could kill Americans by knocking out their heat?pic.twitter.com/deo2H4SBBQ
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
Yeah, Rachel really is awful.
But you knew that.
6/ There was that time when you explored the scenario under which Putin "gives orders" to his puppet Trump at an upcoming meeting. Do you think Putin ordered Trump to stage a coup in Venezuela/try to kill the German-Russia gas pipeline/nix the INF treaty? pic.twitter.com/cbSrGt2xR3
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
Whoa boy.
7/ How about that time when you speculated — citing the Steele dossier — that Cohen billed Trump $50k for "tech services" to pay off Russian hackers? It was actually to pay a US firm (https://t.co/GGK6FQLvRJ). pic.twitter.com/TcqdN8mC4z
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
WOW.
Wrong, wrong, and wrong again.
We knew Rachel’s track record wasn’t great but yeah, wow.
8/ How about when you suggested that Putin has gotten Trump to "bleed out" the FBI? If Mueller and the FBI found proof of that, I missed that part of their report. pic.twitter.com/hFT0ByWzlQ
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
All we can say is, ouch.
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