Russiagate is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media
This is...utterly delusional, and totally disconnected from the evidence on record.<p>The President&#x27;s campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, personal lawyer and National Security Advisor have either pled guilty or been convicted of felonies. Despite denying any contacts with Russia, we now know he&#x27;d been offered a deal to build the biggest tower in Europe, a payout worth $300 million, during the campaign. During the transition, his son-in-law met with the Russian ambassador and asked to use the Russian government&#x27;s communication system to evade scrutiny by the American intelligence community. During sentencing, a federal judge told the President&#x27;s former NSA that &quot;arguably, you sold out your country&quot;.<p>On what earth does Taibbi live?<p>I grant that perhaps the media built up the Mueller report to a point that no actual product could satisfy. But what we know is so outrageous that it&#x27;s quite strange to conclude that the people doing the irresponsible misleading are the news media. This is such a strange, bizarre, consequential, unprecedented story cloaked in classified details that it&#x27;s pretty odd to expect a media to do a great job of contemporaneously reporting on it.<p>I used to have a lot of respect for Taibbi, and I suppose I still do, but this is deranged on his part.