ALL HAIL PRESIDENT TRUMP

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Xavderion wrote:

Good. The fake news media doesn't deserve shit.

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rojimboo wrote:

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Xavderion wrote:

Good. The fake news media doesn't deserve shit.

I thought the Mueller report largely vindicated MSM and showed that Fox and some others (Trump) were the main source of fake news, especially regarding Russian interference?

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Xavderion wrote:

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rojimboo wrote:

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Xavderion wrote:

Good. The fake news media doesn't deserve shit.

I thought the Mueller report largely vindicated MSM and showed that Fox and some others (Trump) were the main source of fake news, especially regarding Russian interference?

Of course you thought that, but it's not based in reality. The enemy of the people pushed the Russia collusion hoax for over two years. Mueller showed that the media was wrong.

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While Mueller’s report didn’t establish a criminal conspiracy and was “unable” to conclude that obstruction of justice occurred — contrary to hours of speculation among cable-news pundits during Mueller’s long investigation — it also largely validated news accounts that Trump dismissed or disparaged.

Instead, at least in the Mueller team’s analysis, the fake news seems to have flowed not from the media but from the other direction. His report, released Thursday, cites multiple instances in which Trump and White House aides misled or lied to journalists or in public statements as the investigation was unfolding.

On the day of Mueller’s appointment, in May 2017, for example, White House aides said Trump reacted calmly to the news. In fact, according to Mueller’s report, Trump’s first reaction was anything but calm. According to notes taken by an aide, Trump responded by saying, “Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I’m fucked. . . . This is the worst thing that ever happened to me.”

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters repeatedly in May 2017 that she personally had heard from “countless members of the FBI” that they were “grateful and thankful” to Trump for firing FBI director James B. Comey. That never happened, Mueller said. He wrote that Sanders later acknowledged to investigators that her comments were “not founded on anything.”

Trump also dictated a press statement saying that he had fired Comey based on the recommendations of Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein. But Mueller found that Trump had already decided to fire Comey before Rosenstein had weighed in. Trump backed down and later publicly acknowledged he intended to fire Comey regardless of Rosenstein’s memo after unnamed Justice Department officials “made clear to him” that they would “resist” the bogus justification, Mueller said.

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WASHINGTON — In the months before Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to resign, she tried to focus the White House on one of her highest priorities as homeland security secretary: preparing for new and different Russian forms of interference in the 2020 election.

President Trump’s chief of staff told her not to bring it up in front of the president.

Ms. Nielsen left the Department of Homeland Security early this month after a tumultuous 16-month tenure and tensions with the White House. Officials said she had become increasingly concerned about Russia’s continued activity in the United States during and after the 2018 midterm elections — ranging from its search for new techniques to divide Americans using social media, to experiments by hackers, to rerouting internet traffic and infiltrating power grids.

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But in a meeting this year, Mick Mulvaney, the White House chief of staff, made it clear that Mr. Trump still equated any public discussion of malign Russian election activity with questions about the legitimacy of his victory. According to one senior administration official, Mr. Mulvaney said it 'wasn't a great subject and should be kept below his level.'

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Budget_player_cadet wrote:

Two words: Vince Foster.

In the 2016 election, Trump had the advantage of 25 years of bullshit allegations targeting Hillary Clinton. He had the advantage of Fox News, which has been a transparent right-wing propaganda organization for as long as I've been alive. He had the advantage of the growth of the right-wing media sphere under Obama - there's no fucking reason Breitbart should be taken seriously by anyone, let alone be the largest online right-wing media source. Trump came into an environment where he could expect that the average republican would never have to take any negative coverage of him seriously. That's a really big advantage for a candidate any reasonable electoral system would spit out faster than an ipecac suppository.

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rojimboo wrote:

Fox and co. dismissed it as fake news, that Russia never interfered. Hence, MSM was right all along, and Fox and co and Trump administration the source of the real fake news.

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Budget_player_cadet wrote:

Bolding mine.

The most charitable interpretation I can come up with here: the president is ignoring a threat to our election integrity because he sees it as an attack on his ego.

Fucking what?!

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Xavderion wrote:

In other news, GEOTUS welcome Sleepy Joe to the race. Very tame for his standards. I assume the Sleepy will become a Creepy if Joe wins the nomination. The memes will be lit.

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deathflower wrote:

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Budget_player_cadet wrote:

Bolding mine.

The most charitable interpretation I can come up with here: the president is ignoring a threat to our election integrity because he sees it as an attack on his ego.

Fucking what?!

Would you ignore Russia and China interference if they decided to not let Trump win? Like Work together against a common enemy since it is politically useful to do so?