Apparently, publishing the discredited Jerome Corsi’s pro-Trump conspiracy theory book was not enough for Newsmax. It’s now latched onto another one.
A June 4 “advertorial” written to look like a news article and carrying the byline of John Blosser — we’re guessing this is the same John Blosser who works for American Media, publisher of the pro-Trump National Enquirer — serves up the details:
A shocking new book has torn away the curtain from the secret, subversive “Deep State” and exposed the plotting and tactics of those trying to destroy the Trump Presidency.
“The Plot to Destroy Trump: How the Deep State Fabricated the Russian Dossier to Subvert the President,” written by Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, CEO of The Roosevelt Group, with a forward by leading Republican political consultant Roger Stone, is a hard-hitting book that rips the lid off of how the Deep State tried to use a phony dossier to spy on Donald Trump’s campaign, smear him and block his election.
When that failed, Deep Staters continued to use it, to give birth to an investigation of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government – an investigation which, so far, has cost $16.7 million and produced not a whiff of proof that any such collusion exists.
“Make no mistake: there was a clear attempt, call it a plot, to take down the duly elected President of the United States,”Stone writes in his introduction to the must-read book.
Malloch is a pro-Trump sycophant most recently associated with WorldNetDaily who was reportedly for nomination as President Trump’s ambassador to the European Union until he was busted for exaggerating his biography in, among other places, his WND-published autobiography. We last saw Malloch on the TV show of even more conspiracy-obsessed Alex Jones ranting about the “global elites” are being influenced by “Luciferianism.” Roger Stone is, of course, a sleaze of the highest order whose unconventional sex life gets a pass from right-wing outlets who got the vapors when President Clinton had an affair with an intern.
The “advertorial” — and, thus the book it’s promoting — gets off to a bogus start by portraying the Steele dossier as “phony” and “fabricated.” As we’ve pointed out, several parts of the dossier have been corroborated. The “advertorial” adds:
The riveting book notes blatant errors in the dossier. For example, the dossier claims that Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen met in “secret meetings with Kremlin officials” in Prague in August, 2016. Cohen has never been to Prague, according to his passport, and in August, 2016, was in Los Angeles for his son’s college baseball tryouts.
Actually, special counsel Robert Mueller reportedly has evidence Cohen was in Prague in the summer of 2016 and that he entered through Germany, a trip for which he would not have needed a passport.
Nevertheless, the “advertorial” goes on to quote Malloch as saying that the dossier is part of a “carefully designed plot that begins with Christopher Steele and runs through the FBI, CIA and NSA, all in an attempt to subvert the Trump Presidency.”
We suspect the dossier is more factually verified that Malloch’s book.