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Barbie Goebbles loses her mind over Natasha Bertrand and CNN [1]
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Date: 2025-06-26
I’ve long lost all expectation that anything coming from the WH Press podium is even remotely factual, let alone being a complete total fantasy. But this crazed rant by Barbie-Doll Goebbles today was just an amazingly insane set of ridiculous non-sequitors.
Details over the flip.
Starting at 3:54 she claims the following about Natasha Bertrand of CNN:
She had 51 Intelligence analysts “lie to her” that the “Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian Disinformation.” [This is misstated. 51 Intelligence Officials signed a letter that stated that some of the emails on the laptop could have been Russian Disinformation because the GRU had hacked Burisma’s email accounts just like they had previously done with the DNC. No one ever said the entire story was “Disinformation.”]
just like they had previously done with the DNC. No one ever said the entire story was “Disinformation.”] She wrote that a top intelligence agency had “ruled out the man-made lab leak theory” of the Corona virus origins. [This story was reported by the Washington Post]
The U.S. intelligence community has ruled out the possibility that the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 4 million people globally was developed as a bioweapon by China, but the agencies failed to reach consensus on the virus origin, according to key takeaways from a classified report delivered to President Biden this week. The report, the result of a 90-day sprint ordered by Biden, also found that the agencies are unlikely to reach a conclusion about the virus’s origins without cooperation from the Chinese government, which is unlikely, according to a summary of the takeaways released Friday.
The CIA has since gone back on this view, but it has never reached a full consensus on the point.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said both a natural and laboratory origin remain plausible scenarios. It noted most US intelligence agencies agree the virus was not genetically engineered or "laboratory-adapted". The origins of the pandemic have been a matter of bitter debate in the US. The lab-leak theory has been strongly rejected by China.
Most recently, the CIA — under Trump — has said it’s “probably true” but with “low confidence.”
The US Central Intelligence Agency says Covid-19 probably leaked from a Chinese research lab but has "low confidence" in its conclusion, according to the Associated Press and other international media.
So, Leavitt claiming Trump was “right about that” is not exactly proven.
Bertrand pushed the “Suckers and Losers” Hoax. [General Kelly still stands by that claim and he certainly had no reason to lie about it, he was Trump’s Chief of Staff at the time.]
Bertand pushed the “Fine people hoax taking Trump’s words out of context.” [We all saw his context — he said he wasn’t talking about the Neo-Nazis, which means he was claiming that some of the people with Tiki Torches who chanted “Jews will not replace us” and viciously attacked students and faculty at UV [causing the Librarian to suffer a stroke] weren’t White Supremacists, which is a lie. All of them were. Reporter Elle Reeve, who was then with Vice News, was embedded with them and filmed everything. x x YouTube Video
which is a lie. All of them were. Reporter Elle Reeve, who was then with Vice News, was embedded with them and filmed everything. Bertrand said in Politico that “John Ratcliff was speaking without any evidence when he said Iran was attempting to undermine Trump’s campaign.” [She didn’t say he didn’t have “any evidence”, she said this aside wasn’t part of his prepared remarks as signed off by Christopher Wray and Chris Krebs of CICSA]
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe went off script when he alleged during a press conference last week that Iran was sending intimidating emails to Americans in order to “damage President Trump,” according to two senior administration officials with knowledge of the episode. The reference to Trump was not in Ratcliffe’s prepared remarks about the foreign election interference, as shown to and signed off by FBI Director Chris Wray and senior DHS official Chris Krebs, the director of the department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency.
She never said anything about Ratcliff not having “evidence” for his claim. This is yet another distortion of fact, commonly referred to as a “Lie.”
All of these are gross exaggerations attempting to undermine the credibility of one reporter, when the issue of DIA stating that the bombing of Iranian Nuclear Facilities not being “total obliteration” as Trump claims has been reported by multiple outlets, not just by Bertrand and not just by CNN.
This seems to be a very serious MAGA character flaw. It’s not just Leavitt, it’s not just Trump — it’s just about all of them. They jump wildly to the most extreme conclusions based on the slightest and weakest evidence they can find. [We dropped big BOMBS that go BOOOM!!] and when someone actually investigates the real results they EXPLODE and ATTACK repeatedly claiming that their non-factual off-the-cuff unproven, unverified rough guess and rank speculative presumption must truly be the case.
Well, it’s not the case.
It’s a lie. Again.
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