{"id":403438,"date":"2019-04-20T22:02:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T21:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/democrats-russia-obsession-a-huge-gift-to-trump-for-2020-noam-chomsky-rt-usa-news\/"},"modified":"2019-04-20T22:02:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T21:02:41","slug":"democrats-russia-obsession-a-huge-gift-to-trump-for-2020-noam-chomsky-rt-usa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/democrats-russia-obsession-a-huge-gift-to-trump-for-2020-noam-chomsky-rt-usa-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats\u2019 Russia obsession a \u2018huge gift\u2019 to Trump for 2020 \u2013 Noam Chomsky \u2014 RT USA News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/thumbnail\/5cbb874cfc7e934d7f8b45e1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Progressive intellectual Noam Chomsky called the Democratic party\u2019s focus on \u2018Russiagate\u2019 a \u2018huge gift\u201d for President Donald Trump that \u201ccould hand him the next election.\u201d <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Speaking to Democracy Now!\u2019s Amy Goodman last week, Chomsky outlined his long-held view that there was never any \u2018Russian collusion\u2019 worth investigating in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"media__youtube-frame lazyload\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300px\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sLyS0E91H1o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Democrats are helping him,\u201d<\/em> Chomsky stated. <em>\u201cThey are. Take the focus on Russiagate. What\u2019s that all about? I mean, it was pretty obvious at the beginning that you\u2019re not going to find anything very serious about Russian interference in elections.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Democrats invested everything in this issue,\u201d<\/em> Chomsky continued. <em>\u201cWell, turned out there was nothing much there. They gave Trump a huge gift. In fact, they may have handed him the next election.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In focusing on the specter of Russian collusion, Chomsky slammed Democrats for <em>\u201cbeing so unwilling to deal with fundamental issues.\u201d<\/em> Indeed, that same message has been seized upon by Republicans and the Trump administration as both parties gear up for next year\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>With calls for impeachment rising from some Democrat lawmakers, and with several Democrat-led congressional investigations poised to examine Trump further, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway took a jab at the Russia-obsessed Democrats on Thursday. Holding up a blank sheet of paper, Conway told reporters <em>\u201cthis is the success of the Democrats in the first 100 days in Congress.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chomsky, for his part, is a frequent critic of Trump, accusing the president of obscuring his pro-corporate policies of tax reform and deregulation with <em>\u201coutrageous\u201d<\/em> statements on abortion, gun rights, and other cultural issues to appeal to his base.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWork for the rich and the powerful, shaft everybody else, but get their votes\u2014that\u2019s not an easy trick,\u201d<\/em> he told Goodman. <em>\u201cAnd he\u2019s carrying it off.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chomsky, however, has also been a relentless critic of the left\u2019s myopic focus on Russia.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf there\u2019s going to be collusion, I think we can guess what it is,\u201d<\/em> Chomsky said before the release of Mueller\u2019s report last month. <em>\u201cMaybe he made some deal to have a Trump hotel put up in Moscow. Okay, that\u2019s corrupt, but it\u2019s the kind of corruption that unfortunately is all over the place.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Finally: here&#8217;s Chomsky heaping contempt on the breathless fixation on Russiagate and Trump\/Russia collusion. He focuses particularly on the claim that Russia controls Trump when the reality is that Trump has been dangerous belligerent toward Russia: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qDzrc8yU3e\">https:\/\/t.co\/qDzrc8yU3e<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CGsrIZm1Yy\">pic.twitter.com\/CGsrIZm1Yy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1119593581168209920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/subscribe\/\" id=\"subscribe-focus\">Subscribe<\/a> to RT newsletter to get stories the mainstream media won\u2019t tell you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/457119-noam-chomsky-trump-russia\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive intellectual Noam Chomsky called the Democratic party\u2019s focus on \u2018Russiagate\u2019 a \u2018huge gift\u201d for President Donald Trump that \u201ccould hand him the next election.\u201d Speaking to Democracy Now!\u2019s Amy Goodman last week, Chomsky outlined his long-held view that there was never any \u2018Russian collusion\u2019 worth investigating in the first place. \u201cThe Democrats are helping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}