The Nation’s Aaron Maté is no fan of President Trump. However, long before most of his peers, he understood that Trump did not collude with the Russians to win the 2016 presidential election.
Shortly after the lightly redacted copy of the Mueller Report was released, Maté sat down with RT (Russia Today) America’s Chris Hedges to discuss the far left’s inability to accept the report’s findings. This interview was highly recommended to viewers who were having difficulty understanding the report by YouTube.
The Washington Post published an article questioning this recommendation because RT is “funded by the Russian government.” The article states that, “AlgoTransparency, founded by former YouTube engineer Guillaume Chaslot, analyzed the recommendations made by the 1,000 YouTube channels it tracks daily. The group found that 236 of those collectively recommended RT’s “On Contact: Russiagate & Mueller Report w/ Aaron Mate” more than 400,000 times.”
Here is the RT video:
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who has been one of the most vocal proponents of the conspiracy theory, of course, found it ridiculous that YouTube would tout an RT interview as an information source and took to twitter to share her wisdom.
Maté responded to the misguided Maddow by citing twenty occasions in the last two years when she clearly went way over the top with her anti-Trump rhetoric. Here are those tweets. Enjoy!
1/ If YouTube were to recommend your show, it'd be recommending the leading purveyor of now debunked Trump-Russia conspiracy theories, falsehoods & innuendo of the last 2+ years. Here's a sample:
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
3/ There was that time in Jan 2017 when you speculated that Putin may use the pee tape & other kompromat to force Trump into withdrawing US troops near Russia. How did that one turn out? pic.twitter.com/XuXXagyCNb
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
5/ Who could forget that time this past winter when you seized on life-threatening cold temperatures to fear-monger that Russia could kill Americans by knocking out their heat?pic.twitter.com/deo2H4SBBQ
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
7/ How about that time when you speculated — citing the Steele dossier — that Cohen billed Trump $50k for "tech services" to pay off Russian hackers? It was actually to pay a US firm (https://t.co/GGK6FQLvRJ). pic.twitter.com/TcqdN8mC4z
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
9/ How about the time when you speculated that Putin installed Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State? pic.twitter.com/YiUYWdxpZ5
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
11/ Then there was that time when you lamented the suspension of US war games in Korea, and speculated that it was the fault of Putin: pic.twitter.com/cuDgHyDQPs
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
13/ Based on this sample alone, dare I say that your coverage of Trump-Russia very much amounts to the "deliberate trafficking in unreality":pic.twitter.com/2OXbHhUDHa
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
15/ How about when you speculated that Maria Butina may have played a role in a secret Russian government plot to funnel money to the NRA in order to influence the 2016 election? How did that one pan out? pic.twitter.com/eaRgZdauty
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
17/ or when you falsely insinuated that activity in a Wikileaks grand jury was related to the Russian probe, even though the WP article you briefly flashed on screen accurately noted it "is based on [Assange's] pre-2016 conduct, not the election hacks": pic.twitter.com/0NyHxzfzmt
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 28, 2019
19/ Remember earlier where we saw you suggest that Russia chose Tillerson as Sec of State? How about also when you pondered the same about Paul Manafort? "I mean, take the view from Moscow. If you know a guy who needs a presidential campaign manager, how about our friend Paul?": pic.twitter.com/5xcFarXakV
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 29, 2019
20/ Speaking of installing Tillerson, remember when you also speculated that Russia was actively getting Trump "to weaken the parts of America that most annoy and that most undermine Vladimir Putin", and so that's why the State Dept. was "hollowed out, disappeared, and muted"? pic.twitter.com/6mX5qCCq5F
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) April 29, 2019
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