Vincent J. Curtis
10 Sept 24
RE: Canada is an exporter of far-right influencers. Op-ed by Luke LeBrun. The Hamilton Spectator 10 Sept 24
If he wasn’t a willing dupe, Luke LeBrun certainly was taken in by the latest fake indictment by the United States Department of Justice, Get Trump Division.
There are a couple of central things lacking in LeBrun’s contentions: exporting and influence. Other than mentioning that one woman of Canadian citizenship, Lauren Chen, worked in the United States for several US media outlets, there’s no indication that Canada is “exporting” anything, such as “far-right” “influencing.” The allegations don’t live up to the drama.
The second is ‘influence.’ Let’s stipulate that Putin indeed funded several “influencers”: to do what, exactly? To keep saying what they were saying without his money! After Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim bought into the New York Times, or Torstar Corp’s acquisition of the Hamilton Spectator, was the editorial content of these newspapers decisively altered? Keep in mind the “influencers” were admittedly deceived as to where the windfall cash was flowing from.
The net effect of the DOJ indictments is to
discredit certain “influencers” (said to be “far-right”) during the US presidential
election. This trick was pulled before - by the Mueller investigation. The
Mueller probe charged several Russian residents, who were never arrested and
prosecuted, so that the theory of the case was publicized but never tested in
court. The Hunter Biden laptop was
Russian disinformation, remember? But now, tested in court, its contents are
authentic. Trump-Russian collusion was
real, until, called to account and bitterly disappointed, the Mueller
investigation had to admit they found nothing. Hunter Biden still hasn’t been
charged under FARA, the Foreign Agent Registration Act, by this DOJ, but two
Russians have?
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