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Naming conservative Breitbart News editor Stephen Bannon as his new CEO and CNN’s conservative pundit Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager, 70-year-old GOP nominee real estate mogul Donald Trump got serious about confronting Democratic nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s spin machine. After watching his fortunes sink after the Democratic National Convention, Trump finally realized he was badly out-dueled by Hillary’s “rapid response” team. Blasted for saying practically boo since the convention, Trump watched his 3% lead evaporate to some 6% down in most national and battleground polls. For months, Hillary’s had Trump on the ropes, hyping every statement as a major political gaffe. With close ties to the media, the Hillary campaign comes dangerously close to colluding with mainstream broadcast and print news organizations.

With the deck stacked against Trump in the media, it’s been shooting-fish-in-a-barrel, hyping one Trump controversy after another. Whether it’s Trump’s response of Khizr Khan, the Hillary operative who ripped Trump at the convention, or comment about the Russians finding Hillary’s missing emails or remarks about 2nd Amendment advocates “stopping” Hillary, Hillary’s rapid response team feeds the media immediate defamatory talking points. So clever at selling Trump’s statements as gaffes to the media, Hilllary’’s rapid response team feeds the press pernicious propaganda about Trump’s gaffes. When Trump commented about the judge in his Trump University legal case having possible prejudice because of his Mexican heritage, the media went wild. For weeks, Trump was lambasted by the Hillary campaign and liberal media for racism, commenting about Indiana Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel.

For every gaffe, the Hillary campaign feeds the media the worst-case scenario about Trump’s comments. When Trump mentioned that 2nd Amendment advocates could help stop Hillary in the fall, the media parroted Hillary campaign operatives that it was a dangerous statement, encouraging violence. Routinely the Hillary campaign feeds the media stories about violence at Trump’s campaign rallies, when, in fact, many of the troublemakers were placed at rallies by the Hillary campaign. While there’s no question that the mainstream media is opposed to Trump, there’s growing evidence of the same kind of collusion that brought down CBS Managing News Director and Nightly News anchor Dan Rather in 2004. Rather resigned in disgrace after presenting forgeries of former President George W. Bush’s discharge papers from the Texas Air National Guard during the height of the 2004 campaign.

Trump’s decision to add Stephen Bannon and Kellyanne Conway to the campaign suggests that he’s not going down without a fight, especially over the Hillary’s superior campaign spin machine. Bannon has plenty of print experience at Breitbart confronting left wing propaganda. Mainstream media outlets in the 2016 care more about Khizr Khan than Hillary’s 100% backing to the Saudi proxy war to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, killing nearly 300,000, displacing 11 million more to neighboring countries and Europe, causing the biggest humanitarian crisis since WWII. No, the media isn’t interested in Hillary’s foreign policy or her plans for the economy that could never get through a Republican House and Senate. Today’s media wants to parrot Hillary campaign talking points, ignoring real problems with foreign policy and the U.S. economy.

Today’s media prefers reporting on pure Hillary propaganda that Trump plans to drop out the 2016 race. Left wing flamethrower Michael Moore insists Trump never intended to become president, only look for more publicity for a future reality TV show. Talking about Trump’s big campaign “shakeup,” the media wants to sell the public that the campaign’s falling apart. All coordinated attacks against the Trump campaign by the media raise more questions about collusion in America’s network, cable and print media outlets. Hillary’s talking points have fed the press a narrative about Trump “pivoting,” so-called acting more presidential. In reality, the Hillary campaign’s major propaganda focus is highlighting Trump’s gaffes and lack of fitness for president. “I don’t want to pivot. I don’t want to change. You have to be you. If you start pivoting, your not being honest with people,” said Trump.

Trump responded to Hillary’s forceful propaganda campaign adding Bannon and Conway to the team. Only today, nearly three weeks after Khizr Khan denounced Trump at the DNC convention, did former Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) concede that Khan was a Hillary campaign operative, subject to political scrutiny. Sen. John McCaiin (R-Az.), no fan of Trump, denounced Trump for asking questions about a so-called “Gold Star” military family. Having Bannon and Conway onboard should help Trump confront the outrageous bias against Trump in the media. Much of Trump’s so-called gaffes are nothing more than Hillary talking points, duping some in the media but more likely showing evidence of collusion. Going against prevailing wisdom, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly admitted, despite Trump’s problems, he could still win the White House with a few minor tweaks to his campaign.