Watch How Obama Used NPR To Launder Lies About Trump And Russia In 2016
By: Beth Brelje
August 05, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEjeKrZxDFQAfter the interview, Obama left, then came back in and asked to go back on camera to say one more thing about the CIA.In the waning days of former President Barack Obama’s term, he sat for an hour-long interview with a media ally and planted the seeds of the Russia collusion hoax used to shackle President Donald Trump’s first term.
Obama used National Public Radio’s (NPR) Steve Inskeep, a host of Morning Edition, to help spread propaganda about Russia.
At the time, viewers didn’t know they were being duped, but with hindsight, it’s easy to spot an obviously nervous Obama setting the hook for the Russia lie — that Trump worked with Russia to steal the election from Obama’s Democrat choice, Hillary Clinton. That lie that cost the U.S. millions of dollars in investigations, led to a bogus impeachment of Trump, sent some Trump associates to jail.
The Russia hoax is a colossal scandal for which no one has been held accountable. That may change with the recent declassification of documents related to the scandal and the announcement of a grand jury investigation this week by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.
On Dec. 10, 2016, NPR posted a story with an unnamed source claiming “Russia intervened in the 2016 election specifically to help Donald Trump win the presidency.
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