Polarizing stories spotted in the news

[robkelk]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...hite-house

Don't know if the papers are accurate or a clever forgery. The Guardian is left wing, but a serious paper that does due dilligence. It's also published in the Daily Mail, for what little that's worth.

The Guardian is the the newspaper that broke the story about by the Obama administration secretly collecting Verizon telephone records. I doubt they care about US politics sufficiently to pander to either side.

As for the papers being either accurate or forgeries, the article says:

The Guardian has shown the documents to independent experts who say they appear to be genuine. Incidental details come across as accurate. The overall tone and thrust is said to be consistent with Kremlin security thinking.

EDIT: The most telling line in the article might be the final one:

Trump did not respond to a request for comment.

This guy tweets at the drop of a hat (or he used to before his account was blocked) - there's no way he'd refuse to offer a sound bite to a newspaper that has the gravitas that only an establishment that predates the US Civil War can have... unless doing so would make him look bad. They gave him a chance to defend his name and he didn't take it.