Report confirms Fox News' Napolitano got his British Intelligence conspiracy theory from Russian...

[DonViejo]

Report confirms Fox News’ Napolitano got his British Intelligence conspiracy theory from Russian state media

March 18, 2017 1:47 pm

The New York Times has confirmed that Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano sourced his false allegation that former President Barack Obama asked British intelligence to spy on President Donald Trump to a discredited former CIA analyst. This analyst, Larry C. Johnson, floated the conspiracy theory on the Russian state-sponsored news network RT on March 6, the week after Trump’s original accusation that Obama was responsible for an illegal wiretap.

On March 13, Napolitano told hosts of Fox News’ Fox & Friends that Obama circumvented the American intelligence community to ask “the British spying agency” for “transcripts of conversations involving candidate Trump” without “American fingerprints.” Napolitano’s claims were cited by White House press secretary Sean Spicer while defending Trump’s baseless claims that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential election.

On March 14, Media Matters uncovered the link between Napolitano’s claims and an interview Johnson gave to RT. The New York Times confirmed Media Matters’ reporting that Napolitano used Johnson as “one of the sources” for his “claim about British intelligence.” The Times also noted Johnson’s direct involvement in spreading false rumors that video existed of Michelle Obama using a racial slur against white people. From the March 17 article:

Mr. (Andrew) Napolitano’s unlikely leap into global politics can be explained by his friendship with Mr. Trump, whom he met with this year to discuss potential Supreme Court nominees. Mr. Napolitano also has a taste for conspiracy theories, which led him to Larry C. Johnson, a former intelligence officer best known for spreading a hoax about Michelle Obama.

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[NewRedDawn]

1. Hey Gay wolf man hypocrite fascist Nap

Still got your fake news job. You deplorable fake mother fucker. Putin would violate your rights being gay & all. Just don't understand Gay or POC that are puke.

[2naSalit]

2. K&R

[Jersey Devil]

3. Napolitano, the squirrel judge

I was a lawyer in Bergen County, NJ, where Napolitano was a judge. He was such a lightweight that the assignment judge running the county courts assigned him to small claims court on a regular basis, where he could do the least damage. One day I caught part of a case before him where he had to decide if an exterminator was charging for an extermination job of all squirrels in a woman's house or whether he should be paid per squirrel. This is the kind of "judge" he was. And, by the way, when his 5 year term was up he was not reappointed as a judge.

[boston bean]

4. And the chump dump quotes russian state TV as fact. He is a traitorous bastard!