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nger in the business of saying things that even they believe to be true. It's one thing if they're wrong. You know, we accept that people can be wrong about the news. That's not even a big deal. But it's now obvious they're not trying to be right. That feels different. It's not news. Whatever they're producing, it couldn't possibly be called news if the idea is to prevent you from knowing what's h…

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nd of lined up by politics, right? We expect all the political questions to be roughly Democrats say this, Republicans say that. But they found out that when they primed the people with a one-sentence summary of what the Durham report said, it completely changed the answers to the poll. In other words, the public was so misinformed that they didn't know, because they watched legacy media.

If you watched legacy media exclusively you wouldn't even know that the biggest thing ever had happened, which is that the Durham report showed that the people in charge were fully aware that the Russia collusion was a hoax from the start. They always knew it. And so when Rasmussen asked the question before priming people, you know they have a certain set of answers that line up by politics. But as soon as you tell them the Durham report proved that the government and the FBI knew that the Russian collusion was a hoax, suddenly you get, when told of the Durham conclusions, this is from Rasmussen, when told of the Durham conclusions, 44 percent of the people who thought Trump might have colluded with Russia — keep in mind that people still think that — 44 percent of the people who still thought Trump had actually colluded with Russia, after they were told what the Durham conclusion was, that it was the opposite, it was Hillary's team that made it all up, 44 percent of those people changed their mind immediately and wanted the FBI officials criminally prosecuted.

Forty-four percent of the pe

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ople who just weren't aware of the news, as soon as they heard an accurate summary of the news, the Durham report changed their answer immediately because they had never heard the news. And this was the news that, if you could call it news. So this is the story that made me think, holy cow, we no longer live in a world where the news is even trying to be news. It's only trying to prevent you from…

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