"Since the mid-2010s, Taibbi's reporting has increasingly focused on culture war topics and cancel culture. He has also criticized mainstream media and their coverage of Donald Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
His writing has since polarized readers and fellow journalists.[14]
Using the term "Russiagate", Taibbi covered the story around Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and criticized the mainstream media coverage of the Special Counsel investigation.[114][115]
Taibbi's book Hate Inc. includes a chapter, "Why Russiagate Is This Generation's WMD
In October 2019, Taibbi argued that the whistleblower in the Trump"Ukraine scandal was not a "real whistleblower" because the whistleblower would have had their life affected by prosecution or being sent to prison.
In response to the March 30, 2023 indictment of Donald Trump, Taibbi said, "If presidents think they will be chased into jail under thin pretexts as ex-presidents, they'll try even harder to never leave office. This is how autocracies are born."
In 2021, Ross Barkan of New York Magazine wrote, "Taibbi is"or was, depending on your view"one of the most celebrated investigative journalists of his generation."
He continued, "Taibbi's critics view him as a reporter turned red-pilled culture warrior chasing subscriptions", excerpts
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In other words, Taibbi hasn't been right about much of anything in the last 20 years... he's the new Seymour Hersh.
Not sure why JBelley doesn't just post straight from the source, from TASS.