The Media Research Center gets annoyed when people point out how much Russia likes having Donald Trump as our president, and Nicholas Fondacaro added to the complaint pile in a Feb. 11 post:
The liberal media were apparently still trying to suggest President Trump was a Russian asset during Tuesday’s edition of CNN This Morning. Anchor Jim Sciutto and senior international correspondent Fred Pleitgen’s redux of the Russia Collusion Hoax involved them juxtaposing Trump’s desire to bring the War in Ukraine to a close with an ad put out by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). At one point, CNN even did a crossfade putting the SVR emblem over Trump’s face (pictured in this piece).
“President Trump says he has spoken to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, since returning to the White House,” Sciutto ominously announced at the top of the segment. “Trump says he plans to have, quote, many more conversations with Putin as he pushes for an end to the war in Ukraine.”
Adding: “In Russia, Trump seems to be getting positive reactions from people there.”
Pleitgen warned of “a very open influence operation targeting Americans” from Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, “This slick ad showcasing Soviet and U.S. troops defeating Nazi Germany together.”
There was no “Russia Collusion Hoax” — a government watchdog found that an investigation into Trump’s links to Russia was justified. Still, Fondacaro complained that the obvious affinity between Trump and Russia was pointed out:
Pleitgen was also at a rally for Russian veterans in Moscow where he pointed to a random woman wearing a “Team Putin t-shirt” as an example of the love Trump enjoined in Russia:
[…]He also spoke with a former Wagner fighter who he described as “not unhappy President Trump is in office and Biden is out.”
The tone of this part of the report was basically, ‘if they like Trump, he must be on their side.’
Fondacaro didn’t explain why that shouldn’t be a reasonable takeaway from this mutual admiration society.