John A. Gentry

between these people.

And one of the key things that the press did was, again, amplify the credibility of intelligence officers, former intelligence officers.

So you should listen to these people because they were in intelligence.

Well, you would, but again, they were in political alliance.

I understand that.

Yeah.

But the point here, I think, between, again, the mainstream press and the allies, was that this was a temporary alliance of convenience to go after one person, Donald Trump.

But again, even more unusual was the HPSI, the House Intelligence Committee, doings where Representative Schiff, Adam Schiff, the chairman of the committee,

was actively involved here too.

So he was involved in supporting and encouraging through a staffer, the whistleblower, who led to Trump's first impeachment in 2019.

And we've just learned recently, that would be in, what, April of 2024, that National Public Radio had Adam Schiff on about 25 times

getting his take on issues, including Trump.

And so this was a way then for Schiff to provide to NPR, a major critic of Trump, what his view, what the Democratic Party's view was.

And so this was then amplified.

So it was a huge three-part alliance working together, not in any, you know, not a conspiracy of somebody else, but rather these groups were seeing mutual advantage

So the press, I would argue, took advantage of the intelligence officers to get at a politician they didn't like.

And intelligence officers opposed to Trump used the press because the press then gave them more venues to go after Trump.

So they had airtime on the partisan networks.

They had ample opportunity to write op-eds in the Washington Post and the New York Times.

So it was mutually advantageous.