Thread by @STUinSD

Thread: The Weekly Standard Belongs in the Dumpster

1. Are you growing as tired as I am of seeing the likes of Bill Kristol and Steven Hayes from the “neoconservative” Weekly Standard bashing @POTUS on Tw@tter or the boob tube?

2. I ran across an article that provides some insight into the beginnings of their #NeverTrump ways. Here are some excerpts:

3. “On July 24, 2016, just days before Strzok helped launch a counterintelligence probe into the Trump campaign, Kristol gave Strzok and the Obama Justice Department a big assist from the anti-Trump Right by posting a flawed and questionably-sourced article.”

4. “’Putin’s Party’ is compelling evidence that Kristol and the Standard were far from mere sideline observers as the Trump-Russia collusion scam took shape in the summer of 2016.”

5. “[T]he timing of the article suggests there was careful coordination between the central players—including the Hillary Clinton campaign—and Bill Kristol to derail Trump’s candidacy just weeks before the election.”

6. The article further explains that Kristol had to have been aware of the Fusion GPS-pushed “dossier” (well before there was public knowledge of it) because he used Glenn Simpson’s talking points right down the line in his article!

7. More: “A few hours after the Standard piece went online, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook reinforced Kristol’s message in an interview on CNN.”

8. “Desperate to change the subject from DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s pending resignation, Mook also claimed the Russians were behind the DNC’s computer hack because Putin wanted Trump to win.”

9. “Kristol and Robby Mook just strangely regurgitate the identical Trump-Russia plotline—on the same morning?”

[Kristol colluding with the Clinton campaign? Undeniable.]

10. There’s more in this piece, including the fact that Matt Continetti (Free Beacon) is Kristol’s son-in-law. Remember that it was the Free Beacon who first funded the dossier.

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11. What’s the likelihood that Continetti wouldn’t have mentioned the dossier to his father-in-law? Zip, zero, nada.

12. The Weekly Standard (in particular Bill Kristol and Steven Hayes) have been virulently anti-Trump from the beginning. They are poster boys for #NeverTrump pseudo-conservatives. Recommend you turn the channel the next time you see them on the tube! ///The end.