DISINFO: Mueller report refutes "Trump-Russia collusion" claim
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: RT English (archived)*
  • Date of publication: May 20, 2019
  • Outlet language(s): English
  • Reported in: Issue 150
  • Countries / regions discussed: US, Russia
Tags:
election meddling Robert Mueller Mainstream media Conspiracy theory

DISINFO: Mueller report refutes "Trump-Russia collusion" claim

SUMMARY

Mainstream media outlets such as The New York Times continue to peddle the “Trump-Russia collusion” conspiracy theory, despite the fact that the Mueller report refutes any such allegations.

RESPONSE

Recurring pro-Kremlin narrative on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. The story deliberately conflates "collusion" (not a legal concept) and the actual scope of the Special Counsel investigation which, according to the Mueller report, was to establish "whether any Americans […] joined the Russian conspiracies to influence the election" (p.2). The report explicitly identifies "numerous links between individuals with ties to the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump Campaign" (p. 9). See our recent debunking of the "no-collusion" claim here.

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