It's easy to see these people lack any and all critical thinking, only read the headlines, and take it as 100% fact.
Perfect example, the Kushner "bombshell" liberals are losing their minds over. Take the headline of the story for instance. Suggestive click bait propaganda:
Russian ambassador told Moscow that Kushner wanted secret communications channel with Kremlin
But, if you actually read the entire article you start to realize exactly what it is. A fact less hit piece strung together with innuendo and anonymous sources.
To start, this is buried 20 paragraphs down:
Neither the meeting nor the communications of Americans involved were under U.S. surveillance, officials said.
Which means, no one has evidence of Kushner saying or doing anything. The only "evidence" they supposedly have that this ever happened is from when the FBI intercepted the Russian ambassador's call when he supposedly relayed this back to the Kremlin.
Now, taking that into account, if you read even further, this is buried in paragraph 25:
Russia at times feeds false information into communication streams it suspects are monitored as a way of sowing misinformation and confusion among U.S. analysts.
So they're basically admitting that the Russians purposely feeds the FBI false information over tapped phone lines all the time, and since there's no evidence other than a call between the Russian ambassador and Kremlin, who's to say this isn't the case?
Continuing to read this is buried in paragraph 30:
“How would he trust that the Russians wouldn’t leak it on their side?” said one former senior intelligence official. The FBI would know that a Trump transition official was going in and out of the embassy, which would cause “a great deal” of concern, he added. The entire idea, he said, “seems extremely naive or absolutely crazy.”
That's a former senior intelligence official laying out how careless and dumb this idea would be, pointing out that even if they wanted to do it, it could never happen without them being caught.
According to their story, Kushner was making this request on behalf of Flynn. Flynn might be considered a prick, sell out, whatever, but he's also very intelligent and has a hell of a strategic military mind. You don't think he wouldn't have also realized how careless and dumb this request was, knowing that it could never work?
It gets even better, though. Buried in paragraph 40:
It is common for senior advisers of a newly elected president to be in contact with foreign leaders and officials. Obama administration officials say members of the Trump transition team never approached them about arranging a secure communications channel with their Russian contacts.
The State Department, the White House National Security Council and U.S. intelligence agencies all have the ability to set up secure communications channels with foreign leaders, though doing so for a transition team would be unusual.
Now they're admitting speaking with foreign leaders isn't out of the ordinary for a transition team, that Obama, nor anyone in his administration has knowledge of the Trump transition team making such a request, and that setting up these secure lines, although unusual for a transition team, really isn't that big of a deal anyways.
It continues. Deep down in paragraph 50:
Trump’s advisers were similarly secretive about meetings with leaders from the United Arab Emirates. The Obama White House only learned that the crown prince of Abu Dhabi was flying to New York in December to see Kushner, Flynn and Stephen K. Bannon, another top Trump adviser, because U.S. border agents in the UAE spotted the Emirate leader’s name on a flight manifest.
Another example of Trump's transition team being secretive; therfore, the secrecy doesn't automatically equal colluding with the Russians. If that's the case, is he colluding with the Muslims as well?
Even further in paragraph 55:
Russia would also have had reasons of its own to reject such an overture from Kushner. Doing so would require Moscow to expose its most sophisticated communications capabilities — which are likely housed in highly secure locations at diplomatic compounds — to an American.
This one speaks for itself. I mean, what else is there to say? Let's pretend that Flynn and Kushner are that stupid, but are the Russians really this stupid?
Now for the third to last paragraph where it all comes to fruition:
The Post was first alerted in mid-December to the meeting by an anonymous letter, which said, among other things, that Kushner had talked to Kislyak about setting up the communications channel. This week, officials who reviewed the letter and spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence said the portion about the secret channel was consistent with their understanding of events.
They've had this information for going on 7 months and they're just now running with it? Why is that? These people have had it out bad for Trump. There's no way they would sit on something like this. This tells they sat on it because they knew it was b.s., then months later they finally found someone to give a few quotes and anonymous source verify it, so they ran with it.
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