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Friend,
On Wednesday, Trump's allies on Capitol Hill broke into a closed impeachment hearing, violated security rules, and intimidated a key witness, delaying her sworn deposition for five hours.
And the corporate media did exactly what Trump wanted them to do.
For an entire news cycle, they ignored the substance of Trump's corruption and focused on the spectacle—repeating ad nauseum, without qualification, Trump's bogus complaints about preliminary interviews of witnesses in private, outside the glare of the media.
This is just the latest example of how Trump plays the corporate media like a fiddle—and why our independent, nonprofit model of journalism is needed now more than ever.
At Common Dreams, we're not afraid to say what everyone knows: the protest was a disingenuous stunt designed to distract from the case against Trump.
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