How CNN Spun Gabbard's Exposé into Another Russiagate Hallucination
The Mirror Lies
The Mirror Lies: How CNN Spun Gabbard's Exposé into Another Russiagate Hallucination
By Jim Reynolds | www.reynolds.com
Grook: The Alibi Network
The lie was bold, the mirror clear,
Yet truth stayed banned for half a year.
They nodded, spun, and told you when—
It wasn’t false, just false back then.
So CNN stood firm and grand—
With sledge in hand, Bob broke their stand.
1. CNN's Long War Against Truth
For nearly a decade, CNN has functioned less as a news organization and more as a defensive shield for the permanent political class. Nowhere has this been more obvious than in their obsessive protection of the Russia hoax narrative. From the Steele dossier's first purr to Brennan's last smirk, CNN has served as the delivery system for a fantasy designed to criminalize dissent, neutralize Trump, and paint half the country as traitorous rubes. When Tulsi Gabbard—now Director of National Intelligence—released a tranche of previously hidden intelligence committee documents debunking key aspects of that fantasy, CNN didn’t investigate. They spun. Again. And we caught them doing it in real time.
2. The Trigger: What Gabbard Actually Released
In late July 2025, Gabbard declassified two bombshells: (1) an internal draft of the President's Daily Brief dated December 8, 2016, stating that Russian actors "did not impact recent US election results" by tampering with infrastructure, and (2) a long-suppressed House Intel report drafted in 2017 that questioned the analytic leap claiming Putin preferred Trump.
Together, these documents suggested that the infamous January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) wasn't just flawed—it may have been retrofitted under political orders from the outgoing Obama team. This upends the foundational myth of the Trump-Russia narrative: that the intelligence community acted purely, independently, and in patriotic unity.
Gabbard didn’t assert Russia did nothing; she showed the official story was manipulated, and that Obama ordered a new assessment after the earlier finding failed to justify his narrative. CNN’s job? Bury that truth under a pile of well-rehearsed misdirection.
3. Side-by-Side: CNN vs. Gabbard
A. CNN Claim (Zach Wolf & Jeremy Herb)
"The intelligence community never claimed Russia changed vote tallies."
Documented Reality (Gabbard's Releases)
Gabbard never said they did. She cited a December 8 brief explicitly stating no impact.
Technique Used by CNN
Straw man: Refute a claim she didn’t make.
B. CNN Claim
"Gabbard is conflating two things... wildly misleading."
Documented Reality (Gabbard's Releases)
She distinguished influence ops from infrastructure attacks, citing both dates and intent in sequence.
Technique Used by CNN
Conflation accusation as projection. CNN blurs lines, accuses opponent of same.
C. CNN Claim
"The House Intel report was never released due to sensitivity."
Documented Reality (Gabbard's Releases)
Gabbard released a redacted version that shows political suppression, not national security risk.
Technique Used by CNN
Appeal to secrecy: Imply danger to justify censorship.
D. CNN Claim
"Ratcliffe declined to declassify the report during Trump years."
Documented Reality (Gabbard's Releases)
Ratcliffe faced intense internal resistance; Gabbard faced it down.
Technique Used by CNN
Bureaucratic deflection: Pretend process = integrity.
E. CNN Claim
"Durham found no crimes tied to ICA."
Documented Reality (Gabbard's Releases)
Durham wasn’t tasked with investigating how the ICA was rewritten; Gabbard was.
Technique Used by CNN
Misframing scope: Use irrelevant exonerations as shield.
4. Pattern Recognition: CNN's Toolkit of Deception
CNN uses repetition to create consensus. It deploys credentialed voices to lend authority to evasion. It avoids direct engagement with documents, preferring anonymous sources "familiar with the matter." It dresses denial in the velvet robe of national security and buries contradictions in passive voice.
Gabbard's release exposed these tools by placing raw receipts on the table. CNN's spin response—filled with weasel words like "aspired to," "some say," and "according to reports"—confirmed the rot.
5. Why the Big Dogs Stayed Silent
Most mainstream conservatives aren’t touching this. Some fear being labeled conspiracy theorists. Others were complicit in the early Russiagate framing and now hope history forgets. Tulsi Gabbard broke through because she has the one thing none of them do: the keys to the vault.
But it still takes someone outside the club to say what needs saying. Gabbard had the documents. We have the pattern. And together, we’re breaking the trance.
6. The Exit Sign
This isn’t just about Russiagate. It’s about the illusion of legitimacy—media rewrites of real-time events while waving press credentials like a magic wand. CNN didn’t just lie about Trump-Russia. They lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop, labeling it disinformation while Twitter censored the truth. They lied about Covid origins, calling lab-leak theory racist until the science caught up. They lied about border security, about vaccine mandates, about protests being “mostly peaceful.” But Russiagate is their crown jewel of deceit—the Big Lie that justified them all.
And they know it. That’s why they sent their top narrative managers—Herb, Wolf, Brennan—to discredit Gabbard’s claims. They understand that if this crumbles, their entire mythology does too.
Gabbard didn’t rewrite history. She broke its false seal. CNN didn’t challenge her facts. They reprinted their alibi.
But the trance is breaking. We see the lie. And we’re not asking permission to say so.
RCP readers, skeptics, even lemmings: The mirror lies. Smash it. Walk away.