Скачать или смотреть Renée DiResta on Trump's Russian "zombie food" strategy to distract from Epstein scandal

Donald Trump in an unfamiliar situation. After years of being able to tell his followers what to think about almost everything, many of the faithful are upset him and his administration for refusing to release the government's files on the infamous sex criminal, Jeffrey Epstein.

When he was running for office last year, Trump and many of the people who work in the highest levels of his administration repeatedly promised that they would release the documents on Epstein, including FBI, director Kash Patel, Deputy FBI director Dan Bongino, and Attorney General Pam Bondi. Now, both Bondi and Trump are saying that they will not be releasing the Epstein documents.

Naturally this refusal has been extremely upsetting to many of the MAGA faithful because believing that imaginary Democratic pedophiles secretly rule the world has become almost the cornerstone of being a Republican in the Trump era.

 Faced such massive inter-party descent, the administration has taken to a strategy that they reportedly refer to as "zombie food," throwing out stories that they know know to be nonsense in order to distract MAGA partisans from Trump's Epstein betrayal.

In the past several weeks, Trump has offered a veritable zombie food buffet of narratives to supporters. But the biggest dish by far seems to be a new effort re-frame the 2016 Russian hack and influence campaign as actually a secret plot by Trump's former opponent, Hillary Clinton, and former President Barack Obama.

None of this is real, needless say, but I think particular episode is worth digging into further in real-time since we can see right now how zombie food is made served up to the MAGA masses.

Joining the show to discuss is Renée DiResta, a long-time friend of the show who has direct knowledge of this particular history because she was one of numerous experts who worked with the Senate Intelligence Committee to analyze the Russian hacking and disinformation campaign.


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