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Award-winning journalist John Pilger says that Donald Trump’s election victory “could be seen from miles away,” and has blamed a union of political, financial and media figures for standing behind a “grotesque campaign” to elect the “corrupt” Hillary Clinton.

“The only people who are surprised are those who allowed it to happen – and I am speaking about the liberal class in the US,” Pilger told RT’s Afshin Rattansi during a lengthy interview on RT UK’s Going Underground.

“They told us that only the status quo – a corrupt, war-mongering candidates will be acceptable to the majority. We will have their hyperventilating, and their frustration, and their frenzied reaction for a long time. But, they’ve created Trump…”

He added that the shock surprise is similar to that which occurred after Brexit – “how dare these people vent their frustrations at the ballot box?”

The journalist believes that the arrogance was on display as far back as when Clinton was given a straight run to the nomination during her primaries, with her only real challenger, the outsider Bernie Sanders, treated with contempt.

“They corrupted a voting system, within the Democratic Party that ensured that another populist, Bernie Sanders – though I don’t think he would have beaten Trump – could not win, and instead the embodiment of the status quo, who has declared the whole world a battlefield was made out to be the ‘candidate of sanity’ or ‘the candidate for women.’”

Pilger criticized Clinton’s entourage, noting that she was backed not only by Wall Street heavyweights, but nearly all of the major arms manufacturers in the US, creating an unappealing image for a woman those at home and abroad already saw as a “warmonger.”

“Most of the world regards that kind of behavior from the most powerful country in the world as abhorrent, and she has been the personification of that,” said Pilger.

Pilger also said that US media, in which all but one national newspaper backed Clinton, acted as “anti-journalists,” looking to catch out and “demonize” Trump, without even attempting to weigh up his message.

“One of the most revealing things about the campaign has been the exposure of journalism as the extension of the same established power. They are not independent, they are echo chambers… And the most respected are the worst. The New York Times has become a sort of Cold War propaganda sheet,” said Pilger, who also criticized the tactic of blaming Russia and Julian Assange’s Wikileaks, for exposing genuine email communications related to Clinton.

Despite praising the President Elect for “articulating the frustrations of ordinary Americans very well,” Pilger remains cautious about the next four years.

“Whether Trump will be any better is unclear. He says he is anti-establishment, but he will come with his own establishment. I don’t believe for a moment that he is against the establishment of the US in a wider sense – indeed he is a product of it,” said Pilger. “The truth is, there was no one to vote for.”


https://www.rt.com/news/366371-pilge...nton-liberals/

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Grapesoda

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bronco67

Trump was created by 8 years of Fox News and republican party propaganda. Give him four years, and they'll be destroyed by their own creation.

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wehateporn

You don't think Bernie would have beat Trump?

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pimpmaster9000

in a 2 party exclusive system where nobody else has a chance and both candidates are complete shit, it is unfair to say anybody created trump...

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PR_Glen

he's not wrong. your source still sucks though.

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Bladewire

Another WeHateAmerica post rah rah rah

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wehateporn

Glad you agree Glen!

News networks like CNN which don't give these views a platform suck even more

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wehateporn

You'd be better spending your days calling for the Democrat party to be fixed, otherwise Trump will double his stay

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ruff

There is no defending tRump and his administration. Smart people understand this. You appeal to the un-educated only. This country was not founded by people of your ilk. You can spout your shit, but you are temporary with no substance.

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wehateporn

Instead of those who have been educated with lies

Trump isn't perfect, but if he throws a spanner in the works of the dark plans of George Soros then that has to be a good thing. Hillary had WW3 planned, let's hold that off as long as possible.

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ruff

What lies? What are you talking about? Show me and everyone else some specific lies. That's just bullshit smoke and mirrors. That's all you have, just a bunch of crappy rhetoric that you picked up off some alr-right blog. tRump is a documented and proven liar so you can't use him.

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King Mark

Lol you sheeple are so easily herded. Electoral college was not swayed by any of this.

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ruff

Oh WikiLeaks, well why didn't you say so?

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Bladewire

Fake! You post fake "documents" to support your conspiracy so pathetic

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Joshua G

LOL at the dumb libs attacking wikileaks...the place the outed a lot of dirt about NSA & pentagon shenanigans a while back. surely you dumb libs were happy with wikileaks when they were fighting the surveillance state.

that all its takes for dumb libs to go from loving an information source, to hating it, when the source dares to expose liberal lies & corruptions. suddenly the trusted source for leaks is a fake news outlet. Lulz.

& thats why they are called...dumb libs.