it s fairly effective. i call it earth two. so on earth one, donald trump is in trouble because of russia ties during his campaign. on earth two, none of that is true. that s all just a hoax, and hillary clinton is the one with ties to russia and everything true about trump is really true about clinton. they re so thorough in this narrative and so disciplined about it and it s so consistent across conservative media. and people with a conservative bend are most likely to consume a small amount of media. in their universe, earth two is the real earth. the way i describe what s happening on the trump tv network is that it s like it is to reality what a really good theater set is to an actual house. it s got this air of uncanny. that looks just like an actual news program. there s something slightly off. there s like little windows, something is slightly off about it. but it seems convincing. i looked at some of the polling about this.
the campaign who didn t end up in the administration. paul manafort is a great example, corey lewandowski, who you famously feuded with. there are people playing key roles in the campaign who don t end up in the administration. that can t be the thing that determines whether they played important roles in the campaign or not. but you can t have it both ways. we re also hearing a lot of complaints that donald trump is not getting the best and brightest, especially into his state department and national security apparatus. if you had a pulse and some foreign policy acumen, i think you d be in the administration s appointment among the administration s appointments right now. the fact of the matter is this guy was at ben carson s campaign for like five or six weeks. the way he got into that campaign was very similar, with an inflated resume and a linkedin message. right. but here s the thing. i am willing to believe charitably this guy was low on the totem poll, but he was e-mailing
low-level advisor, he kept turning up. in a september 2016 interview on the subject of russian relations, papadopoulos said trump if elected president will restore the trust. the american jewish committee used trump foreign policy advisor george papadopoulos as a panelist in its republican national convention program, sitting alongside, get this, senator bob corker, delivering remarks. there s papadopoulos on the far left with republican congressman from the house foreign affairs committee, who were also on the panel. apart from personal experience, especially on iran, before i started working for the trump campaign i was based in london for the last seven or eight months. during my time in london i had an opportunity to meet with european energy companies and other commercial enterprises there in france, it isitaly and uk. you can almost see the thought bubbles of who is this dude. a british publication wrote
but you re starting to pull on a string, people are so distrustful any way. legitimacy is tenuous at this moment, that you feel like you re going to pull apart something more profound in terms of any faith in the political system at large. right, right. this is really about hey, this is serious. we don t let s see what happens. imagine if you have a trump administration really saying, we are as worried about this as everyone else. that would really change the tone. one of the things we re seeing with this is the role of leadership. how powerful when trump says this is something to worry about or not, there s a group of people that go with him. the reason they re not saying it s incriminating. but the reason they re not saying, they fear their own legitimacy. the person that the joy reid point is felt most profoundly by the person in the white house
the trump tv network sort of turn this around, as the pressure has ratcheted up. you can see them spinning this countertale, which looks like it s fairly effective. i call it earth two. so on earth one, donald trump is in trouble because of russia ties during his campaign. on earth two, none of that is true. that s all just a hoax, and hillary clinton is the one with ties to russia and everything true about trump is really true about clinton. they re so thorough in this narrative and so disciplined about it and it s so consistent across conservative media. and people with a conservative bend are most likely to consume a small amount of media. in their universe, earth two is the real earth. the way i describe what s happening on the trump tv network is that it s like it is to reality what a really good theater set is to an actual