This is bigger than Watergate.

This is Earth-shaking and it does go deeper than Watergate and the memo does it at all.

Watergate means.

How is it deeper than Watergate?

The elite media is part of the deep state.

Watergate is like stealing a Snickers bar from a candy store and drugstore in comparison.

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernan.

I care and care too much about the hijack of America, the formerly beautiful by a far-right lunatic who answers to a hostile foreign power,

and who has so-and-our-amber waves of green with salt.

That's our eponymous president, Donald, whatever.

But Putin and his stateside allies and agents have also so-and-our people with information nae palm.

And as a born and bred internet citizen, I've been watching this catastrophe in slow motion and it's been incomprehensibly demoralizing.

It's as though the Russians distributed the smallpox blankets of syrups from sea to shining sea and every American without immunity is cognitively compromised.

If you talked about the new NNAS memo last week, if you're still talking about it, you may have the virus.

And I'm chagrin to confess I got infected at last at about three days.

I don't want to talk about the memo any more than I want to talk about how the moon landing was faked.

But this released the memo hashtag went from social media to traditional media, which like everyone else has a hard time telling news from influence operations.

So today we're not talking about the memo. That memo is a content free dud.

But the meme, release the memo is another story. So our topic on Trumpcast is the meme. We are releasing the meme.

My guest today, Molly McEw is an expert on information warfare and she doesn't just decry the war on truth. She anatomizes that war.

This week in Politico, she tells us about the insidious meme that saturated the media last week and then drove news cycles and actual highly consequential events.

I'll be back in a minute with Molly McEw.

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