Russia’s RT News Contradicts Washington Post ‘News’ Report

11 November 2024, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

Yesterday, I headlined “Trump Starts His Relationship With Putin By Implicitly Threatening Russia” and reported:

Even before the U.S. President Re-Elect Donald Trump starts his second term as the President, he spoke by phone on November 10th with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, and the Washington Post headlined about the call, “Trump talked to Putin, told Russian leader not to escalate in Ukraine”, and reported that, “he advised the Russian president not to escalate the war in Ukraine and reminded him of Washington’s sizable military presence in Europe.”

If that newspaper has correctly reported there the contents of that call, …

However, today, Russia’s RT News headlined “WaPo Putin-Trump call claim ‘pure fiction’ – Kremlin: The newspaper’s report about a purported conversation “absolutely does not correspond to reality,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said”.  Their report opened:

US President-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not have a phone conversation about the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

The Washington Post claimed on Sunday that Trump called Putin after winning a new term as US president to discuss his vision regarding how the Ukrainian crisis could be deflated. Peskov said on Monday that the article was a “vivid example of the quality of information published by even some respectable outlets.”

“This absolutely does not correspond to reality. This is pure fiction. This information is simply false,” he told the press. …

The RT News report gives no indication regarding whether Peskin’s statement denied that the call had occurred at all (does his “pure fiction” refer to that?), or instead merely that there was not “a phone call about the Ukraine conflict.” It provided no further information.

If the Washington Post, and its selected sources, were lying (publishing anti-Trump propaganda without first verifying it with Trump himself in order to get his response to it), then Peskov was right that the article is a “vivid example of the quality of information published by even some respectable outlets,” except that Peskov’s statement raises into question whether the Washington Post actually is a “respectable outlet.”

Right now, this is a test between the Washington Post versus RT News, but certainly at least ONE of the two is NOT “respectable.”

Those two ‘news’-reports contradict each other; and, so, it is impossible that both of them are true.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.